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Alejandra Alonso, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, College of Staten Island
Research interest: unravelling the mechanism of tau-induced neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies. We are also working in generating models of neurodegeneration. While studying the pathological functtion of tau and its involvement in neurodegeneration we are also interested in its role in normal neurogenesis and synaptogenesis. With that purpose we are interested in studying development in tau-transgenic zebrafish.

Jesus Angulo, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: molecular mechanisms of drug-induced toxicity and cell death in the brain.

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Valeria Balogh-Nair, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest:the interaction of small molecules with biopolymers—photoreceptors and HIV-1 viral enzymes.

Probal Banerjee, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, College of Staten Island
Research interest: neurobiology and neurochemistry.

Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: the role of p53 in tumorigenesis.

Poala Bellosta, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, City College
Research interest: Metabolism and regulation and molecular biology

Robert Bittman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College
Research interest: chemical synthesis of bioactive lipids; synthesis and mechanism of action of antitumor ether lipids; roles of sphingolipids in membranes; lipid-protein interactions.

Diana Bratu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: biophotonics

Derrick Brazill, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: the signal transduction of cell density sensing.

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David Calhoun, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, City College and Biochemistry Department, CUNY Medical School—
Research interest: expression of alpha-galactosidase A using a baculovirus vector-ilvGMEDA gene cluster transcripts in Escherichia coli K-12.

Avrom Caplan, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, City College
Research interest: protein quality control and cellular systems robustness.

Marco Ceruso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: bioinformatics, membrane structure, function, and transport, physical biochemistry/biophysical chemistry, structural biology.

Emmanuel J. Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Sciences, York College
Research interest:

Haiping Cheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College
Research interest: molecular mechanisms of the signal exchange in bacterium-plant interactions.

Shu-Yuan Cheng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Sciences, John Jay College
Research interest: the roles environmental toxins (dithiocarbamate compounds) play in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease.

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Lesley Davenport, Ph.D., Broeklundian Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: conformation, dynamics and interactions of complex biomolecules; G-quadruplexed DNA; fluorescence spectroscopy.

Sacha De Carlo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: structural biology

Ruel Desamero, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Sciences, York College
Research interest: physical biochemistry/enzymology

Jason Dictenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: visualization of gene expression dynamics in living neurons and the regulation of synaptic plasticity

Robert Dottin, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: regulation of gene expression by signal transduction.

Terry Dowd, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: structural and functional studies of the bone protein osteocalcin complexed to Ca2+,Pb2+ and Mg2+.

Charles Michael Drain, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: self-organizing systems; organic phototransistors.

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Laurel Eckhardt, Ph.D., Hesselbach Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: molecular genetics of lymphocyte development and function.

Robert Engel, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department and Dean of Graduate Studies, Queens College
Research interest: design and synthesis of ionic dendrimers.

Dan Eshel, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: microtubules and their motor proteins.

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Jimmie E. Fata, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, College of Staten Island
Research interest: molecular mechanisms underlying mammary gland development and breast cancer.

Karl Fath, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: cell polarity, golgi membrane trafficking, cytoskeletal motors.

Maria Figueiredo-Pereira, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: the ubiquitin pathway and neurodegeneration.

Marie Filbin, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: myelin formation and inhibitory molecules In myelin.

Charlene Forest, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: genes that control adhesion and fusion of gametes during fertilization.

David Foster, Ph.D., Rosalyn Yallow Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: oncogenes and signal transduction.

Diana Friedland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Science, John Jay College
Research interest: protein-nucleic acid interactions; fluorescence spectroscopy; biochemical thermodynamics and kinetics; enzymology; ribosome inactivating proteins.

Eitan Friedman, Ph.D., Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology Department, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

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Ranajeet Ghose, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: protein-protein interactions in space and time.

Brian Gibney, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: how proteins fold, incorporate metal ions, and perform catalysis.

Mitchell Goldfarb, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: fibroblast growth factor homologous factors.

Dixie Goss, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: protein-nucleic acid interactions and biological regulation.

Paul Gottlieb, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology Department , Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interest: packaging, replication and transcription of cystoviridae.

Sanna Goyert, Ph.D., Professor
Microbiology and Immunology Department , Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interest: innate mechanisms of defense against bacterial pathogens.

Nancy L. Greenbaum, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: bioinorganic chemistry; molecular biology; physical biochemistry/biophysical chemistry; structural biology.

Marilyn Gunner, Ph.D., Professor
Physics Department, City College
Research interest: theoretical and experimental of analysis of intra-protein electron and proton transfers.

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Wayne Harding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: synthesis and evaluation of central nervous system receptor ligands and psychoactive natural products.

Ann Henderson, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: molecular structure of mammalian chromosomes.

Nathalia Glickman Holtzman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: molecular biology and biochemical pharmacology.

Karen Hubbard, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, City College
Research interest: modulation of gene expression to cause or maintain cellular senescence. The investigation of the role of RNA metabolism and apoptosis during senescence.

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Amy E. Ikui, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: molecular targets of Cyclin-Cdk, and the biological importance of the new cyclin targets in S. cerevisiae.

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Anuradha Janakiraman, Assistant Professor
Biology Department, City College
Research interest:

Andrzej Jarzecki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: computational biochemistry; heavy metal poisoning.

Andrei Jitianu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Lehman College
Research interest: bioinorganic chemistry, drug delivery.

Ira Josephson, Ph.D., Associate Medical Professor
Physiology & Pharmacology Department, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interest: iIon channels; electrophysiology; membrane structure, function, and transport.

Laura Juszczak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: protein aggregation; drug development for pathological protein aggregation diseases; protein aggregation at metal surfaces.

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Akira Kawamura, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: natural products chemistry and chemical proteomics.

Edward J. Kennelly, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College
Research interests: biologically active hytochemicals from medicinal plants.

Frida Kleiman, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: the molecular basis of the transcription-coupled repair process and how these interactions regulate gene expression after DNA damage.

Lawrence Kobilinsky, Ph.D., Professor
Forensic Science & Associate Provost, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeResearch interest: forensic sciences: DNA fingerprinting, short tandem repeat analysis, forensic serology.

Ronald Koder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: creating new enzyme-based cancer therapies and protein based biological solar energy devices – ‘green’ solar panels.

Sanjai Kumar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College
Research interest: design, synthesis and evaluation of tight-binding inhibitors of clinically important enzyme targets using a combination of rational and combinatorial approaches, enzyme kinetics and molecular modeling.

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William L'Amoreaux, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, College of Staten Island -
Research interest: cell communication, especially as related to the retinal pigment epithelium and pancreas.

Themis Lazaridis, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: protein folding and molecular recognition.

Nathan Lents, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Sciences, John Jay College
Research interest: molecular biology, bioinformatics, regulation of gene expression.

Louis Levinger, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Natural Sciences, York College
Research interest: RNA-protein interactions.

Peter Lipke, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: cell adhesion and cell surface architecture in yeast.

Diego Loayza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Hunter College
Research interest: telomere function in human cells.

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Richard Magliozzo, Ph.D., Levy-Kosminsky Professor
Chemistry Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: Research interest: spectroscopy and reaction mechanisms of heme enzymes; radicals in biological systems.

Hiroshi Matsui, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: bio-nanotechnology, protein nanotubes, electronics, sensors.

Glendon McLachlan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College
Research interest:

Alicia Meléndez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: developmental genetics and autophagy in C. elegans.

Corinne Michels, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: molecular genetics, regulation of gene expression, yeast genetics.

Carol Wood Moore, Ph.D., Medical Professor
Microbiology and Immunology Department , Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interests: genetics, oxidative damage, modes of action of anticancer agents, radiomimetic drugs, DNA damage and repair; yeast genetics, molecular and cellular biology.

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Fred Naider, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor
Chemistry Department, College of Staten Island
Research interest: peptide transport; yeast mating pheromones; prenylated peptides synthesis; peptide hormones and signal transduction; design of antimicrobial agents.

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Napthali O'Conner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Lehman College
Research interests: study of fluorescent sensors, biodegradable hydrogels for biomedical applications and CO2 sequestration and reduction.

Benjamin Ortiz, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: chromatin, transcription and immune system development

Rafael Ovalle, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: yeast genetics, plant genetics, biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls.

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Manfred Philipp, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Lehman College
Research interest: boronic acids as enzyme inhibitors and enzyme analogs; combinatorial approaches to enzyme inhibition.

Serafin Pinol-Roma, Ph.D., Associate Medical Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy; Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interest: role of nuclear RNA-binding proteins and of RNA-protein complexes in metabolism and nucleocytoplasmic transport of RNA; RNA-binding proteins in mitochondrial gene expression; and myopathies and encephalomyopathies resulting from defects in mitochondrial gene xpression.

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Gary Quigley, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: biomolecular structure and function of nucleic acids.

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Krishnaswami Raja, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, College of Staten Island
Research interests: bionanotechnology, synthetic polymer chemistry, biopharmaceutical chemistry and targeted drug delivery

Boojala Vijay B. Reddy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences, Queens College
Research interest: bioinformatics, structural biology, biophysical chemistry, protein biochemistry.

Patricia Rockwell, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: molecular biology.

Susan Rotenberg, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College—
Research interest: structure-function of protein kinase C and its role in cancer cell metastasis.

Kevin Ryan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: bioorganic studies of olfactory molecular recognition; mammalian pre-mRNA 3' end processing regulation by protein phosphorylation; and development of new methods to deliver miRNA and siRNA to human cells.

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Anjana Saxena, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: checkpoint-tumor suppressor signaling and to study the cell cycle regulators of future therapeutic values.

Wilma Saffran, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College—
Research interest: DNA repair, mutation and recombination in yeast.

Uri Samuni, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College
Research interest: combining spectroscopy, specifically, resonance Raman and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, sol-gel encapsulation of proteins and nanoparticles.

Cathy Savage-Dunn, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: developmental genetics and molecular biology of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Thomas Schmidt-Glenewinkel, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in Drosophila melanogaster.

Joni Seeling, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest:

Chang-Hui Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Biology Department, College of Staten Island

Timothy Short, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: light signaling, physiology, and molecular biology in plants.

Simon Simms, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: regulation of chemotaxis in bacteria.

Shaneen M. Singh, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: application of aomputational approaches to gain insight into cellular signal transduction pathways; normal and aberrant functioning of domains contained in protein that function in a variety of biological processes.

Gillian Small, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor
Biology Department, City College
Research interest: molecular regulation of lipid metabolism.

Linda Spatz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology Department , Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Research interest: lupus; regulation of anti-DNA antibodies.

Ruth Stark, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor
Chemistry Department, City College
Research interest: molecular biophysics of lipid transport; structure and development of protective plant polymers; molecular structure of fungal melanins; solid- and solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance methodology

Mark Steinberg, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry Department, City College, Biochemistry Department, CUNY Medical School
Research interest: mechanisms of malignant transformation in human cells.

Thomas Strekas, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College
Research interest: inorganic biochemistry; DNA-binding tris-chelates of ruthenium (II).

Barbara Studamire, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Brooklyn College
Research interest: protein biochemistry, cell culture, viral and host protein interactions, and molecular biology.

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Burton Tropp, Ph.D., Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Queens College—
Research interest: bacterial glycerophospholipid metabolism.

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Maribel Vazquez, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering, City College
Research interest: microfluidic systems and nanotechnology; cancer infiltration in the brain; and connective tissue repair.

Margaret Wallace, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Sciences, John Jay College
Research interest: identification of plant and insect species using amplified fragment length polymorphism; identification and microbial forensics.

Daniel Weinstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interest: elucidating the signaling mechanisms underlying germ layer formation and patterning in the vertebrate embryo.

Eleanore Wurtzel, Ph.D., Professor
Biological Sciences, Lehman College
Research interest: plant molecular biology; regulation of carotenoid and isoprenoid biosynthesis in crop plants; metabolic engineering.

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Yujia Xu, PhD., Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Hunter College
Research interest: using recombinant collagen triple helix as a model system to explore the determining factors that govern the higher level molecular assembly.

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Zahra Zakeri, Ph.D., Professor
Biology Department, Queens College
Research interests: regulation of gene expression in aging and cell death.

Zhi-Liang Zheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College
Research interest: carbon and nitrogen nutrient balance signaling in plants; OSU1-mediated C/N balance signaling; novel components in C-N-S cross-talk ; role of hormones in nutrient signaling; and control of cytoskeletal organization in root hair-mediated nutrient uptake and response.

Hualin Zhong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
Research interest: regulation of gene expression and nuclear transport.

 

Professor Emeriti
Thomas Haines, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Proton Leakage in Biomembranes, Why We Make Cholesterol, Cardiolipin and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Lipid Design and ATP Synthesis and Consumption.

Irwin Oreskes, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Protein Denaturation and Aggregation Reactivity of Human Rheumatoid Factors with Altered IgG.

Rivka Rudner, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Expression of Ribosomal and Transfer RNA Genes/Cooperative Colonial Patterning in the Genus Bacillus.

Charlotte Russell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Tetrapyrroles: Heme & Siroheme Biosynthesis in E. coli; Lipid-mediated Hemagglutination.

Horst Schulz, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
Metabolism and Enzymology of Fatty Acid Oxidation.

Maria Tomasz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Interaction of Drugs with DNA.

 

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