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Stony Brook IRACDA Research Mentors
IRACDA Scholars are not limited to the mentors listed below, any current faculty member at Stony Brook University with a funded biomedical research project is eligible to become an IRACDA mentor.
- Patricia C. Wright: Behavioral Ecology, Senescence in Wild Primates, Population ecology and genetics, Medicinal Plants in Madagascar.
- Lina Carlini: Intracellular transport, organelle inheritance and dynamics
- Nancy Hollingsworth: Regulation of Meiotic Recombination in Yeast
- Benjamin Martin: Stem cell development and cancer metastasis
- David Q. Matus:Cell, developmental and evolutionary biological approaches to understanding cell invasion.
- Aaron Neiman: Vesicle trafficking, membrane fusion, cytokinesis, signal transduction, & extracellular matrix assembly.
- Steven Smith: Structure & function of membrane proteins .
Biomedical Engineering
- Danny Bluestein: Dynamics of blood flow & cellular transport during cardiovascular pathologies.
- Richard Clark: Wound healing, tissue engineering & skin disorders.
- Emilia Entcheva: Development of electrical, optical, mechanical & chemical tools to study cardiac cells & heart tissue.
- Stefan Judex: Integrative Skeletal Adaptation & Genetics.
- Jonathan Liu: Development of biomedical optical devices for diagnostics & therapy.
- Lillianne Rivka Mujica-Parodi: Neurobiology of emotional arousal, & its effects on physiology & cognition.
- Yi-Xian Qin: Physical mechanisms involved in the control of tissue growth, healing, & homeostasis.
- Clinton Rubin: Cellular mechanisms of bone growth, healing, & homeostasis.
- Balaji Sitharaman: Development of nanobiosystems for diagnostic & therapeutic.
- Helmut Strey: Nanostructure materials for applications in bioseparation, drug delivery & biosensors.
Chemistry
- Elizabeth Boon: Nitric oxide sensing and signaling inbacteria
- Carlos Simmerling: Development and application of biomolecular simulation methods.
- Kenneth J. Takeuchi: Specific inorganic materials of interest include: iron-containing spinels and inverse spinels, bimetallic layered or channeled materials where both metals are redox active, and inorganic materials containing alkali and alkaline earth metals.
- Peter Tonge: Drug mechanism of action, drug development for cancer and infectious diseases, positron emission tomography imaging and photoreceptor mechanisms.
Ecology & Evolution
- Liliana M. Dávalos: Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, tropical deforestation.
Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
- Kenneth Dill: Computational biology.
- Weiqin Lu: Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer.
- Shipra Agrawal: Nephrology, kidney disease, glomerular disease, podocyte biology, RNA functions, PPARy, nuclear receptor, therapeutics, biomarkers.
- Nicholas Carpino: Regulation of host immune responses.
- Carol Carter: HIV Replication; Coronavirus Assembly; Anti-Viral Drug Development.
- James Konopka: Candida albicans pathogenesis.
- Erick Mackow: Viral Pathogenesis: Viral Regulation of Endothelial Cell Responses in Pulmonary and Neuronal Disease.
- Nancy Reich-Marshall: Cellular responses to cytokines and viral infection.
- Brian Sheridan: Understand the biology of intestinal T cell memory for application of vaccine design targeting enteric infections and gastrointestinal tumors.
- David Thanassi: Secreted virulence factors of bacterial pathogens, including Escherichia coli and Francisella tularensis.
- Adrianus Van der Velden: Host interactions with bacterial pathogens.
- Sian Piret : Molecular and cellular changes that occur in kidney proximal tubules
- Alfred Fontanini: Neuroscience of chemical senses and motivated behavior.
- Arianna Maffei: Neural plasticity, cortical development, learning.
- Roger Sher: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases.
- Howard Sirotkin: Genetic and Molecular analysis of vertebrate neural development.
- Lonnie Wollmuth: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission.
- Bruce Demple: Oxidative DNA damage and repair; genetic toxicology.
- Michael Frohman: Lipid signaling, breast cancer.
- Hyungjin Kim: DNA damage and repair.
- Chioma Okeoma: Mechanisms of virus-host and tumor-host interactions.
- Jessica Seeliger: Infectious disease, tuberculosis, lipid biosynthesis, membrane biology, enzymology.
- Markus Seeliger: Structural biology of cancer drug mechanisms.
- Styliani-Anna Tsirka: Interactions between the nervous and immune systems.
- Todd W. Miller: Signal transduction.
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
- Jorge Benach: Pathogenesis of spirochetal infections & their host responses.
- James Bliska: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis or host protection interactions.
- Nicholas Carpino: Signaling mechanism in of T cells
- Carol Carter: Retroviral protein assembly & molecular basis of resistance to drugs.
- Bruce Futcher: Cancer; cell cycle; microarrays; computational biology; yeast genetics
- Patrick Hearing: Adenovirus (Ad) regulation of cellular growth & gene expression; Ad assembly & viral vectors for gene therapy
- James Konopka: Molecular mechanisms of cell growth & development in yeast.
- Laurie Krug: Virus-host interactions during chronic gammaherpesvirus infections.
- Erich Mackow: Rotavirus & Hantavirus Pathogenesis.
- Brian Sheridan: Resident memory T cells (Trm) in the intestines; Memory gd T cells in mucosal inflammation
- Adrianus Van Der Velden: The mammalian T cell response to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.
- Eckard Wimmer: RNA virus genetics, replication, pathogenicity, cellular receptors.
- Weixing Zong: Molecular regulation of apoptotic & necrotic cell death.
Neurobiology & Behavior
- Maurice Kernan: Mechanosensory signaling in ciliated sensory neurons & sperm flagella.
- Arianna Maffei: Neuronal circuits & plasticity.
- Gary Matthews: Synaptic vesicle cycle that mediates chemical neurotransmission.
- Lorne Mendell: Functional effects of neurotrophins in neonatal & adult mammals.
- Lorna Role: Generation, plasticity, & maintenance of cholinergic & cholinoceptive synapses in
the mammalian brain.
- Lonnie Wollmuth: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic synapses.
Pathology
- Martha Furie: Interactions of bacterial pathogens with host cells of innate immunity.
- Jingfang Ju: Mechanism of translational control mediated by miRNAs in cancer.
- Richard Kew: Innate immune system contribution to the pathology of tissue injury.
- Yupo Ma: Stem cell research.
- Ute Moll: Function & regulation of the p53 gene family in normal cells & cancer cells.
- Kanokporn Rithidech: Identification of mechanisms involving radiation induced myeloid leukemia. Biomarkers for radiation & multiple sclerosis.
- Kenneth Shroyer: Cancer biomarkers as diagnostic adjuncts in surgical pathology & cytopathology.
Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
- Bruce Demple: Repair pathways for oxidative DNA damage & genetic regulatory systems that govern cellular responses to oxidative stress & nitric oxide.
- Michael Frohman: Roles for lipid signaling pathways in cellular & physiological settings.
- Craig Malbon: Signal transduction in differentiation & development: role of molecular scaffold proteins.
- Markus Seeliger: Molecular mechanism of protein Kinase & Ubiquitin Ligase signaling in cancer & aging.
- Styliani-Anna Tsirka: Neuro-immune interactions: cross-talk between the nervous & immune systems in health & disease.
Physiology & Biophysics
- Peter Brink: Biophysical properties of Gap junction channels.
- Todd Miller: Signal Transduction by Tyrosine Kinases.
- Thomas White: Gap junction functions defined by genetic diseases & gene knockouts.