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Graduate Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Graduate Catalog 2021-2022

Biochemistry Faculty


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Biological Sciences

Jesus Angulo,  Professor; PhD CUNY; Addictive drugs and neurochemistry of the synapse

Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria, Professor; PhD NYU; Dysfunctional MDM2 and p53 signaling in human breast cancer and C. elegans tumor models

Derrick Brazill, Professor and Chair, Biologogical Sciences; PhD California (Berkeley); Mechanisms of cell density sensing in eukaryotes

Robert Dottin, Professor; PhD, Toronto; Genomics, research collaboration and educational technology

Laurel Eckhardt, Marie L. Hesselbach Professor; PhD, Stanford; Molecular immunology

Maria Figueiredo-Pereira, Professor; PhD, NYU; The ubiquitin/proteasome pathway in neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation

Benjamin Ortiz, Professor and Deputy Chair, Biology; PhD Stanford; Gene regulation and genetic engineering of T cells;

Thomas Schmidt-Glenewinkel, Associate Professor; Dr Phil Nat, Frankfurt (Germany); Biochemistry and molecular biology of neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in Drosophila melanogaster

Diana Bratu, Associate Professor; PhD NYU; Role of RNAi in RNA localization in fruit flies

Paul G. Feinstein, Associate Professor; PhD Columbia; Genetics and neurodevelopment in the mouse

Mitchell Goldfarb, Professor; PhD MIT; Molecular neuroscience: Fibroblast growth factor-homologous factors (FHFs): Roles in neural excitability, communication, memory, sensory and motor pathways, epileptic syndromes, and cardiac arrhythmia

Diego Loayza, Associate Professor; PhD Johns Hopkins; Relationship between shelterin, POT1 and telomerase in human cells

Carmen Melendez-Vasquez, Associate Professor; PhD London University-England; Actomyosin regulation and mechanism of myelin formation

Olorunseun Ogunwobi, Associate Professor; PhD University of East Anglia, UK; Mechanisms of metastasis of solid organ cancers

Jayne Raper, Professor; PhD University of Cambridge, England; Trypanosome lytic factors, antimicrobial high density lipoproteins and their role in innate immunity

Chemistry

Spiro D. Alexandratos, Professor, Chemistry, PhD University California at Berkeley; Polymer Chemistry

Adam Braunschweig, Associate Professor, Chemistry, PhD California at Los Angeles; Organic Chemistry, Nanoscience, Materials Chemistry

Lynn Francesconi, Professor, Chemistry, PhD Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Inorganic Chemistry, Radiochemistry

Dixie J. Goss, Gertrude B. Elion Professor, Chemistry, PhD Nebraska, Biophysical Chemistry

Nancy L. Greenbaum, Professor, Chemistry, PhD Pennsylvania; Biochemistry

Wayne W. Harding, Associate Professor, Chemistry, PhD University of the West Indies, Mona; Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Mandë Holford, Associate Professor, Chemistry, PhD Rockefeller; Chemical Biology

Akira Kawamura, Associate Professor, Chemistry, PhD Columbia; Bioorganic Chemistry, Genomics, Natural Products

Frida Kleiman, Professor, Chemistry, PhD National University of Córdoba, (Argentina); Biochemistry, Cancer Research

Louis J. Massa, Professor, Chemistry; PhD Georgetown; Computational & Theoretical Chemistry

Hiroshi Matsui, Professor, Chemistry; PhD Purdue; Bionanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials

David R. Mootoo, Professor, Chemistry; PhD Maryland; Organic Chemistry

Rein Ulijn, Professor, Chemistry, PhD University of Strathclyde (UK); Molecular Systems, Bionanotechnology, Biocatalysis, Adaptive Materials

Yujia Xu, Associate Professor, Chemistry, PhD Connecticut, Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials

Brian M. Zeglis, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, PhD California Institute of Technology; Radiopharmaceuticals 

 

 

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