biochem

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. Biochemistry students can work in biology or chemistry labs, and have also worked in two anthropology labs. Labs related to biochemistry are listed below--in order to do an honors thesis, your work must relate to biochemistry in some way.

Department of Chemistry

This table contains faculty from the department of Chemistry.
Ming An Science II 229 BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY - General areas of organic, bio-organic, medicinal, biological, and pharmaceutical chemistry, as well as chemical biology and drug discovery
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
Christof Grewer Science 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 Li Science II 332 CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY - synthesis of carbohydrates and oligosaccharides, and evaluation in biological systems
Eriks Rozners Science II 315 ORGANIC AND BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY - synthesis of unnatural oligonucleotides and their biological applications
Omowunmi Sadik Science II 315 CHEMICAL AND BIOSENSORS - Interfacial molecular recognition processes, development of sensors for broad-based analytical applications in medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring, and industrial process controls.

Department of Biological Sciences

This table contains faculty from the 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 106 MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY - the study of DNA-binding proteins involved in cancer; plant proteases in living plants.
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 148 MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY - Regulation of interaction between epithelial cells and immune cells in the small intestine and colon.
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 110 PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY - Cleavage specificity and regulation of gene expression of plant proteolytic enzymes important in legume seedling growth.
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.

Department of Anthropology

This table contains faculty from the department of Anthropology.
Koji Lum Science I 115A MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY, FORENSIC GENETICS - The genetics of populations in the Pacific and other tropical regions, including the genetics of malaria resistance.
David Merriwether Science I 219 MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY - Molecular evolution, phylogenetics and population genetics; genetics of disease including diabetes and obesity.