Faculty Experts
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Biology
Eric Block
Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
Organic chemistry; food chemistry; garlic, onions and other alliums
Sridar V. Chittur
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Drug discovery; genomics; gene-expression; microarrays; flow cytometry; enzymology; high throughput technologies
Sharon DeWitte
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
human osteology; paleodemography; paleopathology; paleoepidemiology; the Black Death; epidemics
Andrei G. Lapenas
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Global warming; climate change; climatology; Russia
Melinda Larsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Organ formation; tissue engineering, cell-cell signaling; cell-extracellular matrix signaling
Paulette McCormick
Professor
School of Public Health and Gen*NY*Sis
Center of Excellence in Cancer Genomics
Cancer; stem cell research; metastases; mutant mouse research; developmental genetics; biology
Rabi Musah
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
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
George Robinson
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
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
Hua Shi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
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
Scott Allen Tenenbaum
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health and Gen*NY*Sis
Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics
Genomics; gene-expression; cancer; stem cells; virology; genetics; microarrays; biotechnology; immunology; ribonomics
