Faculty Directory

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Amrik Sahota - Research Professor- Department of Genetics - Rutgers

Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency, chronic renal failure, microchimerism and organ transplantation, Alzheimers disease, molecular diagnostics

Dipak Sarkar- Professor- Department of Animal Sciences - Rutgers

Influences of stress and drug abuse on neuroendocrine and neuroimmune systems

Donald W. Schaffner - Extension Specialist - Department of Food Science - Rutgers

Predictive food microbiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment - Visit Dr. Schaffner's Homepage!!

Federico Sesti - Associate Professor- Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

Physiology, structure and function of potassium channels, role of potassium channels in causing disease

Konstantin V. Severinov- Professor- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry- Rutgers

Genetic and biochemical analysis of RNA polymerases from E. coli and yeast, site-directed modification of proteins

Daniel H. Shain - Associate Professor - Department of Biology - Rutgers

Osteoporosis, bone metabolism and obesity

Changshun Shao - Assistant Research Professor - Department of Genetics - Rutgers

Genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors in the genesis of somatic mutation

Sue A. Shapses - Professor - Department of Nutritional Sciences- Rutgers

Osteoporosis, bone metabolism and obesity

Aaron J. Shatkin- Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ

Viral cytopathogenesis, protein synthesis, mRNA 5'-capping, transcription elongation, protein processing

Zhiyuan Shen -  Professor - Department of Radiation Oncology - UMDNJ

Genomic stability and molecular cancer etiology, DNA repair and homologous recombination, Modulation of cell response to therapeutic DNA damage

Yufang Shi - Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ

Apoptosis in lymphocytes,immune regulation, psychoneuroimmunology, and bone-lymphocyte connection

Troy Shinbrot- Associate Professor- Department of Biomedical Engineering - Rutgers

Computational bioengineering, biomedical imaging

David I. Shreiber - Assistant Professor- Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering- Rutgers

CNS injury mechanics, tissue engineering, nerve and spinal cord regeneration, acupuncture, microfluidics

Gleb Shumyatsky- Assistant Professor- Department of Genetics- Rutgers

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory

Andrew Singson - Associate Professor- Department of Genetics- Rutgers

Reproductive biology and cell-cell interactions in C. elegans

Patricia K. Sonsalla- Professor- Department of Neurology- UMDNJ

Neurodegeneration, models of Parkinson's Disease, mechanisms of cell death, synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter transporters as modulators of neurotoxin damage

Martha C. Soto - Assistant Professor- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - UMDNJ

Using C. elegans embryos to investigate polarized cell divisions and polarized cell migrations during development

Stanley Stein- Associate Research Professor- Department of Pharmaceutics - Rutgers

Medical applications of protein/peptide/oligonucleotide biotechnology

Ruth Steward- Professor- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry- Rutgers

Pattern formation in Drosophila

Ann M. Stock - Professor- Department of Biochemistry- UMDNJ

Structure/function analysis of signal transduction proteins

Vasily Studitsky - Associate Professor- Department of Pharmacology- UMDNJ

Transcription regulation; chromatin remodeling; mechanisms of enhancer and insulator action

Nanjoo Suh - Assistant Professor- Department of Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Mechanistic study of cancer prevention & inflammation-natural/synthetic agents


Thresia Thomas - Professor - Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine- UMDNJ

Estrogens and polyamines in breast cancer cell proliferation and signaling

T.J. Thomas-  Professsor- Department of Medicine - UMDNJ

Development of triplex DNA-based gene therapy, polyamine-DNA interactions, role of estrogens in lupus and breast cancer

Jay Tischfield - Professor- Department of Genetics - Rutgers

Medical and human genetics: the genetics of somatic cells, mouse models for human diseases and genes for complex human genetic disorders

Chih-Cheng Tsai - Assistant Professor- Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

Transcriptional repression, chromatin modifying factors, epigenetic effects, polyglutamine diseases, nuclear receptor signaling, and animal development

Nilgun Tumer- Professor- Department of Plant Pathology - Rutgers

Viral replication and virus resistance in transgenic plants


Theodorus van Es- Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology- Rutgers

Carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, the application of modified glycosidases in the synthesis of glycosides, synthetic applications of modified enzymes in organic solvent media

Andrew K. Vershon - Professor- Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry- Rutgers

Transcriptional regulation in yeast - Visit the Vershon Lab!

Costantino Vetriani - Associate Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology - Rutgers

Deep-sea microbiology, extremophiles, molecular ecology, adaptations to extreme environments - Deep Sea Microbiology Lab