People
Faculty Trainers
Research Interests
- Synthetic organic methods
- Pericyclic and cascade reactions
- Catalysis
- Heterocycle synthesis
Professor of Chemistry; Chair Department of Chemistry
Office: 448 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4335
Email: kara.bren@rochester.edu
Office: 448 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-4335
Email: kara.bren@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Center for Musculoskeletal Research; Center for Visual Science
Office: 317 Goergen Hall
Phone: (585) 276-4195
Email: mark.buckley@rochester.edu
Office: 317 Goergen Hall
Phone: (585) 276-4195
Email: mark.buckley@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Soft tissue biomechanics, surgical biomechanics, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, novel imaging techniques to characterize soft tissue properties
DeLouise, Lisa
Research Interests
- Bio Nanomaterials / nanoscience and toxicity
Dewhurst, Stephen
Professor Microbiology and Immunology; Vice President for Research University of Rochester
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
Phone: (585) 275-2708
Email: stephen_dewhurst@urmc.rochester.edu
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 672
Phone: (585) 275-2708
Email: stephen_dewhurst@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Influenza Viruses
- Virus Polymerase HIV Vaccine Development
- NeuroAIDS Research
Robert K. Boeckman Jr., and Mary H. Delton Family Distinguished Professor in Organic Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry
Office: 418 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2915
Email: driver@chem.rochester.edu
Office: 418 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2915
Email: driver@chem.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Organic chemistry
- Organometallic chemistry
- Electrochemistry
- Drug discovery and development
Ermolenko, Dmitri
Research Interests
- Ribosome function and dynamics
Professor of Chemistry
Office: 414 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2568
Email: frontier@chem.rochester.edu
Office: 414 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2568
Email: frontier@chem.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Synthetic organic chemistry
- synthesis of bioactive natural products
- pericyclic reactions
- asymmetric catalysis
- cationic cascades
Professor of Biology; Director Graduate Affairs and Admissions in Biology
Office: 333 Hutchison
Phone: (585) 276-3346
Email: dragonyfu@rochester.edu
Office: 333 Hutchison
Phone: (585) 276-3346
Email: dragonyfu@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Biological functions of RNA modifications
- Human disorders linked to RNA modifications
- Regulation of protein synthesis
Gelbard, Harris
Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience, Microbiology and Immunology; Director Center for Neurotherapeutics Discovery (CND
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave.
Phone: (585) 273-1473
Email: harris_gelbard@urmc.rochester.edu
Office: 601 Elmwood Ave.
Phone: (585) 273-1473
Email: harris_gelbard@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Development of drugs for age-related and inflammatory diseases that target ancient caloric restriction pathways.
Professor of Biology; Director Undergraduate Research
Office: 326A Hutchison
Phone: (585) 275-4829
Email: sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu
Office: 326A Hutchison
Phone: (585) 275-4829
Email: sghaemma@bio.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Protein folding and degradation
- Neurodegenerative diseases and aging
- Prion biology
- Proteomics
Grossfield, Alan
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Phone: (585) 276-4193
Email: alan_grossfield@urmc.rochester.edu
Phone: (585) 276-4193
Email: alan_grossfield@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Biophysics
Office: B32 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-0139
Email: yishu.jiang@rochester.edu
Office: B32 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-0139
Email: yishu.jiang@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Biophysical chemistry
- Catalysis
- Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
Research Interests
- Catalysis and Synthetic Methods
- Organometallic Chemistry
- Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Kielkopf, Clara
Research Interests
- Pre-mRNA splicing
Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Optics
Office: 465 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-5093
Email: todd.krauss@rochester.edu
Office: 465 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 275-5093
Email: todd.krauss@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Materials Chemistry and Physics of Colloidal Nanoscale Semiconductors
- Optics of nanoscale semiconductor materials
- Quantum optics and nanoscience
Mathews, David H.
Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Office: 3-8816 MC
Phone: (585) 275-1734
Email: david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu
Office: 3-8816 MC
Phone: (585) 275-1734
Email: david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Research Interests
- Synthetic biology
- 3D printing of bacteria
- Engineering of bacteria to produce biomaterials
- Survival strategies of bacteria
- Organization of bacterial DNA
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
Email: benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu
Office: 5-6141A MC
Phone: (585) 275-9805
Email: benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu
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
Professor of Chemistry ; Director Materials Science Program
Office: 417 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3053
Email: nilsson@chem.rochester.edu
Office: 417 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-3053
Email: nilsson@chem.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Peptide self-assembly
- Amyloid peptides
- Smyloid-inspired materials
- Bioorganic chemistry
- Supramolecular chemistry
O'Connell, Mitchell
Research Interests
- Biochemical mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene regulation
Papasergi-Scott, Makaia
Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology (SMD)
Office: 4-6718 601 Elmwood Avenue
Phone: (585) 273-4893
Email: makaia_papasergiscott@urmc.rochester.edu
Office: 4-6718 601 Elmwood Avenue
Phone: (585) 273-4893
Email: makaia_papasergiscott@urmc.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Molecular mechanisms and spatiotemporal regulation of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling pathways using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), biochemical, and pharmacologic studies
- Instrumentation and methods development in cryo-EM; structural biology of RNA/protein therapeutic targets and treatments
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Office: 453 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-5822
Email: sparadin@ur.rochester.edu
Office: 453 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 276-5822
Email: sparadin@ur.rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Office: 419 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 273-1404
Email: benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu
Office: 419 Hutchison Hall
Phone: (585) 273-1404
Email: benjamin.partridge@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Research Interests
- Biocatalysis
- Total synthesis
- Data science
- Natural products
Associate Professor of Chemistry; Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 451 Hutchison Hall
Email: michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
Office: 451 Hutchison Hall
Email: michael.ruggiero@rochester.edu
Research Interests
- Physical and materials chemistry
- Ultrafast terahertz vibrational spectroscopy and optics
- Theoretical chemistry
- Diffraction and crystallography
Wedekind, Joseph
Research Interests
- HIV-1 Vif and APOBECG3