Complete Faculty List

A

• Jeffrey Amack, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Genetics and cell biology of organ morphogenesis during embryonic development.
• David Amberg, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of actin dynamics and analysis of genomic influences on actin function.

B

• Robert Barlow, Ph.D., Professor
  Neural basis of visual behavior; computational models of neural coding; circadian and metabolic modulation of human visual sensitivity.
• Edward Berry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Biological energy transduction by membrane protein complexes, with emphasis on oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthesis.
• Scott Blystone, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Actin Cytoskeletal Dynamics in the leukocyte inflammatory phenotype.

C

• Blair Calancie, Ph.D., Professor
  CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoiperative electrophysiology.
• Peter Calvert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Molecular mechanisms of protein transport and localization in retinal neurons; mechanisms of retinal degenerative diseases
• Gregory Canute, M.D., Associate Professor
  Genetics and Gene Therapy of Brain Tumors
• Xin Jie Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Mitochondrial biogenesis and inheritance, aging and aging-related degenerative diseases.
• Richard Cross, Ph.D., SUNY Distinguished Professor
  Bioenergetics, enzymology, structural biology, membrane protein function

D

• Timothy Damron, M.D., Professor
  Radioprotectant strategies: pediatric growth plate. Treatment of Fractures in Pathology Bone, Reconstructive Alternatives: Limb-Sparing Sarcoma Surgery, Genetics of Pagetoid Osteosarcoma
• Joseph Domachowske, M.D., Professor
  Pneumovirus pathogenesis.
• Dipak Dube, Ph.D., Professor
  Molecular mechanism of cardiac myofibrillogenesis in vertebrates.
• Thomas Duncan, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Bioenergetics, enzymology, structural biology, membrane protein function.
• Russell Durkovic, Ph.D., Professor
  Examination of processes underlying recovery from spinal cord injury in the salamander.

E

• Timothy Endy, M.D., MPH, Associate Professor
  Understanding the epidemiology and pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic and encephalitic arboviruses and host-vector interactions.

F

• Gerold Feuer, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  HTLV pathogenesis and Tax function; Humanized SCID mouse models of hematopoiesis; lentivirus vectors; KSHV/HHV-8 infection and pathogenesis; SCID-hu immune responses against HIV envelope
• Jeffrey Freedman, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Membrane physiology in normal and sickle human red blood cells; Optical indicators of membrane potential and intracellular calcium; Membrane biophysics
• Eileen Friedman, Ph.D., Professor
  The role of the serine/theonine kinase Mirk/dyrk1B in cancers of the pancreas, ovary and colon.

G

• Jerrie Gavalchin, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of pathogenic antibody production in autoimmune glomerulonephritis; Cell-surface receptors for retroviruses
• Stephen Glatt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
• Steven Goodman, Ph.D., Professor
  Proteomic assessment of sickle cell severity.

H

• Sandra Hayes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Determining the roles of γδ T cell receptor structure and signaling potential in γδ T cell development and function
• Charles Hodge, M.D., Professor
  Mechanisms of cortical plasticity and cortical reorganization after injury.
• George Holz, Ph.D., Professor
  Drug development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Brian Howell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  The signal transduction events that regulate the functional organization of neurons in the brain, and the phenotypes caused by defects in the genes that encode these signaling molecules.
• Huaiyu Hu, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Molecular studies of brain malformations.
• Ying Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Oncogenic signaling in cellular transformation and apoptosis; tumor suppressor genes.
• Ziwei Huang, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
  Discovery and mechanism of action of new pharmacological agents for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, infectious disease, and stem cell-based regenerative medicine.
  
• Bihchen Hwang, DDS, Ph.D., Professor
  DNA replication of herpes viruses.

J

• Burk Jubelt, M.D., Professor
  CNS acute and chronic polio- and entero-virus infections.

K

• Patricia Kane, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
  Vacuolar H+ATPases (structure, function, assembly and regulation), cellular pH homeostasis, cellular stress responses, protein sorting, genomics, yeast as a model system
• Wendy Kates, Ph.D., Professor
  Anatomic and functional imaging investigations of neurodevelopment in individuals with genetic or psychiatric disorders
• Grant Kelley, M.D., Associate Professor
  Elucidating the regulation of PLC-epsilon and its role in glucose signaling and endothelial cell function in diabetes.
• William Kerr, Ph.D., Professor
  Transplant immunology and stem cell biology.
• Dilip Kittur, M.D., Professor
  Xenotransplantation, Endothelial cell dysfunction, Use of herbal products in transplant biology
• Barry Knox, Ph.D., Professor
  Visual transduction, Gene Expression, Membrane proteins
• Mira Krendel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Physiological functions of myosin motors and their roles in diabetic kidney disease and cancer
  
• Andrzej Krol, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Molecular and dynamic imaging. Image registration and fusion. Tomographic reconstruction. Ultrafast laser-based x-ray source. Brain deformation quantification between mutant and normal mouse.

L

• James Listman, M.D., Assistant Professor
  Cytomegalovirus and transplantation.
• Stewart Loh, Ph.D., Professor
  Mechanism and kinetics of protein folding; protein-based molecular switches; protein engineering and design; structure and function of the p53 tumor suppressor.
• Michael Lyon, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Age-related changes in the laryngeal muscles and vocal folds.

M

• Kenneth Mann, Ph.D., Professor
  Micro-mechanics of implant interfaces; damage evolution of joint replacements and biomaterials; in vivo models of tumor osteolysis and prediction of fracture risk; general orthopedic biomechanics.
• Paul Massa, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of cytokine-induced gene expression in oligodendrodcytes.
  Regulation of innate immune responses in glial cells.
  Unique control of NF-kappaB activation in neurons.
  
• Russell Matthews, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Role of glycoproteins in oncogenesis and brain development
• James McCasland, Ph.D., Professor
  Cortical plasticity, development of somatotopic representations in cortex
• Michael Meguid, M.D., Professor
  Neurophysiological regulation of food intake.
• Frank Middleton, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  

  Molecular basis of cortical-basal ganglia and cortical-cerebellar circuit formation and dysfunction in neurological and psychiatric disease.

• Michael Miller, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
  Factors that regulate the proliferation, migration, and survival/death of neurons in the developing brain; models of fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• David Mitchell, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of ciliary dynein activity and assembly, and the role of the central pair complex in ciliary motility regulation.
• Jennifer Moffat, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Varicella zoster pathogenesis.
• M Golam Mohi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Molecular mechanism of leukemia; study the effect of oncogenic mutations in pathogenesis of leukemia using mouse model.
• Sandra Mooney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Cell death and survival in the developing brain; Mechanisms of ethanol toxicity; models of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism.
• Brad Motter, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Visual Neurophysiology; Visual Attention; Visual Search Behavior

N

• Nancy Nussmeier, M.D., Professor and Chair
  Stroke after cardiac surgery, cerebral protection during cardiac surgery, gender-related surgical outcomes

O

• Eric Olson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cerebral cortex development.

P

• Andras Perl, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
  Genes and Viruses Predisposing to Autoimmunity, Genetics, Apoptosis, Endogenous Retroviruses, Transaldolase
• Arkadii Perzov, Ph.D., Professor
  Biophysical mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias; fluorescence imaging.
• Francesca Pignoni, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  
  Neurogenesis; Retinal Progenitor Cells Specification and Proliferation; Genetic Control of Stem Cell Identity and Maintenance; Genetic Pathways in RPE Formation; Disease Genes Analysis in Drosophila
  
• Thomas Poole, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Vascular development and the alignment of growing nerves and blood vessels in quail and zebrafish embryos.
• Dawn Post, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Cancer treatment using oncolytic viruses and gene therapy
• Michael Princiotta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Antigen processing and presentation; Cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to viral and bacterial infections
• David Pruyne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Biochemistry and cell biology of formins as actin cytoskeleton organizers, using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system.
  

R

• Rosemary Rochford, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
  Etiology of viral-associated malignancies, gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis.

S

• Jean Sanger, Ph.D., Professor
  Analysis of the assembly of the actin/myosin cytoskeleton in muscle and non-muscle cells.
• Joseph Sanger, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
  Cellular analysis of the formation of myofibrils, stress fibers, and cleavage furrows in living cells.
• Steven Scheinman, M.D., Professor
  Molecular genetics of nephrolithiasis and tubulointerstitial disease
  
• Mark Schmitt, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Ribonucleoprotein assembly and biogenesis; mitochondrial RNA import, mRNA degradation, cell cycle control
• M Saeed Sheikh, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
  Apoptotic signal transduction and cancer biology.
• Edward Shillitoe, Ph.D., Professor
  Gene therapy for cancer.
• Allen Silverstone, Ph.D., Professor
  How dioxins and estrogens and estrogenic compounds affect the immune system.
• Vladimir Sirotkin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Mechanisms of the actin cytoskeleton assembly and role of myosin-1 during endocytosis in fission yeast.
• Joseph Spadaro, Ph.D., Professor
  Electromagnetic and mechanical regulation of bone physiology, skeletal growth and bone density.
• Dennis Stelzner, Ph.D., Professor
  CNS regeneration, spinal cord injury research, and neural plasticity.

T

• Steven Taffet, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of intercellular communication in the heart, gene expression during macrophage activation
• Daniel Tso, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques.
• Christopher Turner, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of cell migration by focal adhesion adapter proteins and their role in cancer cell metastasis.
  

V

• Mary Lou Vallano, Ph.D., Professor
  Neuronal survival and development.
• Richard Veenstra, Ph.D., Professor
  Regulation of connexin-specific-gap-junctions; gap junction channel biophysics.
• Andrea Viczian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Mammalian retinal stem cells formation; molecular mechanism of retinal cell fate decisions; using cell replacement therapy to heal the blinded eye.
• Brent Vogt, Ph.D., Professor
  Structure, functions, and pathologies of cingulate cortex.

W

• Stephan Wilkens, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Structure and Mechanism of Membrane Bound Transport Proteins
• Richard JH Wojcikiewicz, Ph.D., Professor
  Intracellular signaling via InsP3 receptors and the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway.

Y

• Steven Youngentob, Ph.D., Professor
  

  In utero ethanol exposure and chemsensory systems plasticity, olfactory signal transduction, peripheral and central mechanisms of odorant quality coding.

Z

• Michael Zuber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  The molecular basis of retinal stem cell formation; regulating retinal stem/progenitor cell proliferation; using retinal stem/progenitor cells to heal the injured or degenerating retina.