Faculty Hosting Undergraduate Research Students
Biochemistry at Binghamton is a program, not a department, so all faculty who can host students are from different departments. If you would like more information, click their name to go to their departmental web page. For the most current information about their work, however, feel free to contact them. (Note: because biochemistry is a program, any faculty member in the department of biology or chemistry can host a biochemistry independent study student.)
Department of Chemistry
Susan Bane
Science II 320
BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Interactions of
antimitotic
drugs with tubulin; synthetic organic chemistry,
spectroscopy.
James Dix
Science II 808
MEMBRANE BIOPHYSICS - Biological Membranes, membrane
transport, cell culture, fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy,
NMR, computational biophysical chemistry.
John
EischScience II 328
SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT AMINES, SUGARS,
AND LIPIDS - Novel approaches to the asymmetric synthesis of
amino acids; structure and biomimetic syntheses of alkaloids;
prebiotic syntheses of carbohydrates and lipids and their relevance
to the origins of Life on Earth.
Christof
GrewerScience II 816
BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY - Elucidation of the mechanism of
membrane transport proteins; measurement of transport of glutamate, a
neurotransmitter, across a membrane.
Wayne Jones
Science II 609
ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY - Design of
macromolecular structures capable of long range electron transport; development
of novel molecular level electron transport structures.
Zhitao
LiScience II 332
CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY - synthesis of carbohydrates and oligosaccharides,
and evaluation in biological systems
Eriks
RoznersScience II 315
ORGANIC AND BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY - synthesis of unnatural oligonucleotides
and their biological applications
Omowunmi SadikScience II 708
CHEMICAL AND BIOSENSORS - Interfacial molecular recognition processes,
development of sensors for broad-based analytical applications in medical diagnosis,
environmental monitoring, and industrial process controls.
Michael Starzak
Science II 708
BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY - study of membranes and membrane channels;
theoretical calculations of membrane biophysics
Eugene Stevens
Science II 128
BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY - Conformational analysis of saccharides and
polysaccharides; theory of saccharide optical activity.
Department of Biological Sciences
John Baust
Science III 144 and 158
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY - Adaptation to low temperatures,
depressed metabolism, mechanisms of cryopreservation of
mammalian
tissues.
David Davies
Science III 112
MICROBIOLOGY, BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY, BIOFILM RESEARCH -
the control of the development of complex bacterial communities
known as biofilms; regulation of biofilm-specific genes.
Susannah Gal
Science III 106
MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY - the study of DNA-binding proteins involved in cancer; plant proteases in living plants.
Kathleen Horwath
Science III G44
CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL BIOCHEMISTRY -
biochemistry and molecular biology of insect antifreeze proteins and activators.
Gene regulation and molecular evolution of insect antifreezes; insect growth and
development; mechanisms of cell diferentiation.
Dennis McGee
Science III 148
MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY - Regulation of interaction between epithelial cells
and immune cells in the small intestine and colon.
Sandra Michael
Science III 175
OVARIAN CANCER AND POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN DISEASE - Study of ovarian diseases from the cellular level to the animal level.
Carol Miles
Science III G40
NEUROBIOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT, AND BEHAVIOR OF INSECTS -
neural basis for behavior, with a focus on insect feeding in larval Lepidoptera.
Matthew Parker
Science III 371
COEVOLUTION AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF PLANTS AND
BACTERIA - Constraints on the evolution of disease resistance in an annual
legume; Nonrandom genotypic associations in a legume Bradyrhizobium
mutualism.
Karin Sauer
Science III 210
BIOFILMS - Regulation of biofilm formation and of antimicrobial resistance in biofilms.
Julian Shepherd
Science III 371
PHYSIOLOGICAL BIOCHEMISTRY OF INSECT AND ARACHNID
REPRODUCTION - Identification of activators and metabolic substrates of
spermatozoa; analysis of glandular secretions.
Steven Tammariello
Science III 142
EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION -
Signal transduction in mammalian neuron apoptosis, cell cycle regulation in arthropod dormancy
Anna Tan-Wilson
Science III 110
PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY - Cleavage specificity and regulation of gene
expression of plant proteolytic enzymes important in legume seedling growth.
Robert Van Buskirk
Science III 112
ANIMAL CELL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, TISSUE
ENGINEERING - Mechanisms of gene activated cell death;
tissue engineering of artificial tissues/organs for medical
applications.
Karl Wilson
Science III 180
PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, PROTEIN CHEMISTRY -
Proteolysis and its control in developing plant systems; chemistry and molecular
evolution of protein protease inhibitors and their metabolism in the plant.
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