University at Albany

Carla Rizzo Delray Distinguished Professor Eric Block is a specialist in the field of organic chemistry, as well as food and agricultural chemistry, including garlic and onions.

Eric Block
Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry

Areas of expertise:
Organic chemistry; food chemistry; garlic, onions and other alliums

Campus e-mail:

eb801@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 442-4459

Senior Research Associate Sridar Chittur, Department of Biomedical Science

Sridar V. Chittur
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Drug discovery; genomics; gene-expression; microarrays; flow cytometry; enzymology; high throughput technologies

Campus e-mail:

schittur@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 591-7215

Sharon DeWitte
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

Areas of expertise:
human osteology; paleodemography; paleopathology; paleoepidemiology; the Black Death; epidemics

Campus e-mail:

sdewitte@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 442-4715

Andrei G. Lapenas
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Planning

Areas of expertise:
Global warming; climate change; climatology; Russia

Campus e-mail:

andreil@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 442-4191

Assistant Professor Melinda Larsen, Department of Biological Sciences

Melinda Larsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Organ formation; tissue engineering, cell-cell signaling; cell-extracellular matrix signaling

Campus e-mail:

mlarsen@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 591-8882

Paulette McCormick
Professor
School of Public Health and Gen*NY*Sis
Center of Excellence in Cancer Genomics

Areas of expertise:
Cancer; stem cell research; metastases; mutant mouse research; developmental genetics; biology

Campus e-mail:

PMC@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 591-7200

Rabi Musah
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry

Areas of expertise:
Isolation, analysis, biological evaluation and structure elucidation of natural products from medicinally important plants; rational evaluation of folkloric, ethnomedical, and traditional medicinal plants; organic chemistry; experimental physical chemistry; biochemistry; experimental methods of organic structure determination; pharmacognosy

Campus e-mail:

musah@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 437-3740

George Robinson
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Botany; forest ecology; watershed ecology; disease ecology; biological conservation; ecological restoration; invasive plant species; science of fall color; origins of chocolate; Campus Environmental Task Force

Campus e-mail:

grobins@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 442-4302

Hua Shi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Molecular and cellular biology of transcription and signal transduction; aptamer-mediated multi-pathway control in living organisms; forward engineering approach to drug discovery and development

Campus e-mail:

hshi@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 442-4767

Scott Allen Tenenbaum
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Gen*NY*Sis
Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics

Areas of expertise:
Genomics; gene-expression; cancer; stem cells; virology; genetics; microarrays; biotechnology; immunology; ribonomics

Campus e-mail:

stenenbaum@albany.edu

Campus phone:

(518) 591-7157

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