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Danielle Benoit
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Phone: (585) 273--269
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Research Interests
  • Therapeutic Biomaterials
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Richard S. Eisenberg Professor in Chemistry; Chair Chemistry Department
Office: 448 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4335
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Research Interests
  • Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
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Brookes, Paul S.
Associate Professor Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Physiology
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 604
Phone: (585) 276--300
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Research Interests
  • Mitochondrial function
Mark Buckley
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Center for Musculoskeletal Research; Center for Visual Science
Office: 317 Goergen Hall
Phone: (585) 276-4195
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Research Interests
  • Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues
  • Soft tissue aging, disease and repair
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DeLouise, Lisa
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Phone: (585) 275-1810
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Research Interests
  • Bio Nanomaterials / nanoscience and toxicity
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Dumont, Mark
Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 712
Phone: (585) 275-1895
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Research Interests
  • Signal Transduction
  • Membrane Protein Structure
  • Yeast Molecular Biology
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Dunman, Paul
Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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Research Interests
  • Antimicrobial development
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Ermolenko, Dmitri
Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Research Interests
  • Ribosome function and dynamics
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Andrew S. Kende Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Office: 418 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 273-3504
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Research Interests
  • Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis
  • asymmetric biocatalysis
  • protein engineering
  • bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology
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Professor of Chemistry
Office: 414 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2568
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Research Interests
  • Synthetic organic chemistry
  • synthesis of bioactive natural products
  • pericyclic reactions
  • asymmetric catalysis
  • cationic cascades
Dragony Fu
Associate Professor
Office: 333 Hutchison
Phone: (585) 276-3346
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Research Interests
  • RNA modification and translation regulation
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders linked to RNA function
  • Biochemistry and molecular biology
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Gelbard, Harris
Professor Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience, Microbiology and Immunology; Director Center for Neurotherapeutics Discovery (CND
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave.
Phone: (585) 273-1473
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Research Interests
  • Development of drugs for age-related and inflammatory diseases that target ancient caloric restriction pathways.
Sina Ghaemmaghami
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor; George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry; Director of Undergraduate Research
Office: 326A Hutchison
Phone: (585) 275-4829
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Research Interests
  • Protein folding and degradation
  • Neurodegenerative diseases and aging
  • Prion biology
  • Proteomics
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Grossfield, Alan
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Phone: (585) 276-4193
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Research Interests
  • Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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Research Interests
  • Catalysis and Synthetic Methods
  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
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Kielkopf, Clara
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Research Interests
  • Pre-mRNA splicing
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Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Optics
Office: 465 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-5093
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Research Interests
  • Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors
  • Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials
  • Quantum optics and nanoscience
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Mathews, David H.
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Phone: (585) 275-1734
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Research Interests
  • Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
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Associate Professor
Office: 472 Hutchison
Phone: (585) 275-9290
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Research Interests
  • Synthetic biology
  • 3D printing of bacteria
  • Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials
  • Survival strategies of bacteria
  • Organization of bacterial DNA
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Miller, Benjamin L.
Professor of Dermatology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Professor of the Institute for Optics
Office: 5-6141A MC
Phone: (585) 275-9805
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Research Interests
  • Developing new strategies for the sequence-selective recognition of RNA, and using the optical properties of nanostructured materials for the production of novel biosensors
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Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Office: B32 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-6006
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Research Interests
  • Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and f-Element Chemistry
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Professor of Chemistry ; Director Materials Science Program
Office: 417 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3053
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Research Interests
  • Peptide self-assembly
  • amyloid peptides
  • amyloid-inspired materials
  • bioorganic chemistry
  • supramolecular chemistry
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O'Connell, Mitchell
Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Research Interests
  • Biochemical mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene regulation
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Office: 453 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-5822
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Research Interests
  • Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
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Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 462 Hutchinson Hall
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Research Interests
  • Polymer electronics
  • optoelectronic devices
  • light-emitting diodes
  • thin-film transistors
  • photodetectors
  • xerographic photoreceptors
  • biological sensors
  • electrooptic modulators
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Wedekind, Joseph
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Research Interests
  • HIV-1 Vif and APOBECG3