CUNY Molecular Biophysics Faculty
Faculty members are listed below in alphabetical order along with their laboratory/home locations and research interests.
While most first-year Ph.D.-level coursework occurs in Manhattan at the CUNY Graduate Center campus, students do research rotations and dissertation research at laboratories distributed throughout New York City, including campuses in Manhattan (ASRC, CCNY, Hunter College), Brooklyn (Brooklyn College), Queens (Queens College, York College), The Bronx (Lehman College), and Staten Island (College of Staten Island).
All faculty members listed here are also affiliated with one or more of the four CUNY Graduate Center science Ph.D. programs: Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, or Physics, with admissions requirements and coursework being determined by each program. A subset of faculty are affiliated with Ph.D. programs in engineering offered by CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering as well. Please ask specific faculty members about which programs they’re affiliated with for more information!
For more information on any aspect here, please contact Kevin Gardner (kgardner@gc.cuny.edu) –
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: protein dynamics; signaling proteins; solution X-ray scattering; solution neutron scattering
affiliations: CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (Structural Biology Initiative); CUNY Graduate Center (Biochemistry)
research interests: protein liquid phase separation; neurodegenerative aggregation; single molecule fluorescence, soft matter material science; C. elegans genetics
affiliations: Brooklyn College (Chemistry)
research interests: computational molecular biophysics, free energy modeling of protein-drug interactions
affiliations: CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (Structural Biology Initiative); City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: structural and mechanistic studies of environmental sensory proteins; cancer; photoreception; protein engineering; solution NMR; X-ray; cryo-EM
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: protein dynamics; enzyme catalysis; NMR spectroscopy
affiliations: Hunter College (Chemistry)
research interests: regulation of protein synthesis; viral RNA translation; plant anti-viral proteins; fluorescence spectroscopy
affiliations: City College of New York (Physics)
research interests: protein electrostatics; network analysis of proton transport pathways; Monte Carlo simulation techiques
affiliations: College of Staten Island (Chemistry)
research interests: protein/metal interactions; protein structure; EPR spectroscopy; NMR spectroscopy
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: DNA replication, nucleotide excision repair, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM
affiliations: CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (Structural Biology Initiative); City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: protein structure, dynamics and allostery; small molecule artificial regulation; X-ray crystallography
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: structural biology of viral proteins and assemblies; cryo-EM
affiliations: City College of New York (Physics)
research interests: protein design; synthetic biology; biohybrid metamaterials; NMR spectroscopy
affiliations: Lehman College (Chemistry)
research interests: de novo drug discovery; solvation thermodynamics; computer aided drug design
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: protein/membrane interactions; biomolecule/solvent; computational methods
affiliations: College of Staten Island (Chemistry)
research interests: all-atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to investigate properties of soft and biological materials; stability of macromolecular assemblies composed by proteins and/or nucleic acids
affiliations: College of Staten Island (Chemistry)
research interests: ion channels, peptide toxins, solution NMR, binding assays, electrophysiology
affiliations: City College of New York (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
research interests: molecular biophysics: lipid metabolism, protective plant polymers, fungal melanins; NMR spectroscopy