RNA Institute Faculty &amp; Staff

The Berglund Lab - RNA Institute

LS 2033I

Institute Leadership

Thomas Begley

Professor of Biological Sciences, Associate Director of RNA Institute

518-437-4443

LS 2033

Marlene Belfort

Distinguished Professor, Senior Advisor of RNA Institute

518-437-4466

LS 2060

Belfort Lab

RNA Leadership

Faculty

Rajendra K. Agrawal

Professor

518-486-5797

Wadsworth Center, Biggs Lab, Room C450

Cheryl P. Andam

Assistant Professor

518-437-4475

Life Sciences 2060

Andam Lab

Alan Chen

Associate Professor

518-437-4420

LS 2033E

Chen Lab

John Cleary

Collaborative Staff Scientist

518-442-3593

Life Sciences 2033

Douglas S. Conklin

Associate Professor

518-591-7154

Cancer Research Center, Room 342H

The Conklin Laboratory

M. Joan Curcio

518-473-4213

Wadsworth Center, Center for Medical Science, Room 5219

Bijan K. Dey

Principal Investigator, The RNA Institute; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

518-437-4481

Life Sciences 2098 (Office) Life Sciences 2020 (Lab)

Michael Fasullo

Associate Professor of Nanobioscience, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

518-956-7385

NFE 4319

Gabriele Fuchs

Assistant Professor

518-442-3621

LS 2033F

Fuchs Lab

Ken Halvorsen

Senior Research Scientist

518-591-8816

Life Sciences 2020A

Halvorsen Lab

Jason Herschkowitz

Assistant Professor

518-591-7211

East Campus CRC 342

Melinda Larsen

Professor

518-591-8882

LS 1086

Igor Lednev

Professor

518-591-8863

Life Sciences 1107

Lednev Lab

Pan T. X. Li

Associate Professor

518-591-8879

LS 1108

PTXL Research Group

Kathleen A. McDonough

Professor

518-486-4253

David Axelrod Institute

Li Niu

Professor

518-591-8819

LS 1057

Cara Pager

Associate Professor

518-591-8841

LS 2051

Pager Lab

Janice D. Pata

Chair & Professor

518-402-2595

Prashanth Rangan

Associate Professor, Director of Innovation and Research for The RNA Institute

518-442-3485

LS 2033D

Rangan Lab

Kaalak Reddy

Research Faculty; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

518-442-1464

Life Sciences 2015A

Reddy Lab

Maksim Royzen

Associate Professor

518-437-4463

LS 1136

Royzen Lab

Alexander Shekhtman

Professor, Chair and Director, Graduate Program

518-442-4163

Life Sciences 1149

Jia Sheng

Associate Professor

518-437-4419

LS 2033B

Sheng Lab

John M. Sullivan

Professor of Ophthalmology, University at Buffalo

716-862-6533

Ben Szaro

Professor

518-591-8852

LS 1059

Scott Tenenbaum

Associate Professor of Nanobioscience, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

518-437-8871

NFE 4312 SUNY Polytechnic

The Tenenbaum Lab

Sweta Vangaveti

Research Scientist, Advanced Computational Facility Manager

518-437-4436

Life Sciences 2016A

Mehmet Yigit

Associate Professor

518-442-3002

LS 2099

Yigit Lab

RNAfaculty

Associate Faculty

Nilesh Banavali

Assistant Professor

518-473-7553

Wadsworth Center, Biggs Lab, Room C419B

Nathaniel Cady

Empire Innovation Professor of Nanobioscience and Executive Director, SUNY Applied Materials Research Institute

518-956-7354

SUNY Poly NFE 4405

Cady Research Group

Alexander T. Ciota

Assistant Professor

518-485-6616

GEC 100

Ye Ding

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Research Professor, Biomedical Sciences

518-402-2510

Empire State Plaza C236

Keith Earle

Associate Professor and Chair of Physics

518-442-4502

Physics 112

Paolo Forni

Associate Professor

518-442-4374

BIO 310

Forni Lab

Laura D. Kramer

Professor

518-869-4524

Hongmin Li

Associate Professor

Wadsworth Center, Center for Medical Science, Room 5221

Rabi Musah

Professor

518-437-3740

Chemistry 222

Robert Osuna

Associate Professor

518-591-8827

LS 2062

Morgan Sammons

Assistant Professor

518-442-4326

LS 2078

Hua Shi

Associate Professor

518-591-8840

LS 2050

Alex Valm

Assistant Professor

518-442-4324

BIO 324

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

518-591-8844

LS 2077

associatefaculty

Affiliate Faculty

Eriks Rozners

Professor of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Binghamton University

607-777-2441

Daniel P. Aalberts

Professor of Physics, Williams College

413-597-3520

Dana R. Crawford

Associate Professor, Albany Medical College

518-262-6652

Lauren Endres

Assistant Professor of Biology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute

315-792-7144

SUNY Poly Page

Steven D. Hanes

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University

315-464-9887

Sally Temple

Scientific Director, Principal Investigator and Co-Founder, Neural Stem Cell Institute

518-694-8188

Paul Whitford

Professor of Physics, Northeastern University

617-373-2952

Whitford Research Group

affiliatefaculty

Distinguished Faculty

Paul Agris

Founding Director of The RNA Institute; Consulting Professor, Duke University Department of Medicine

(919) 681-1218

Joachim Frank

Chemist Nobel 2017, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

212-305-9510

Angel Garcia

Director of CNLS Los Alamos National Laboratory

505-667-3883

David Shub

Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Albany

518-442-4324

Michael Zuker

Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

518-276-6382

distinguishedfaculty

Institute Staff

Paul Gumpper

Administrative Manager

518-437-4449

Life Sciences 2033G

Liisa Koski

Science Communication Specialist

518-442-1492

Life Sciences 2033H

Ryan Meng

Bioinformatics Support Specialist

518-437-4408

Life Sciences 2097

Tammy Reid, MSc, CCRC

Research and Development Manager, Berglund Lab Manager

518-591-8814

Life Sciences 2033J

Donna Willey

Office Assistant

(518) 437-4443