Biology

Blanca L. Barquera

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — barqub

Name:	Blanca L. Barquera
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/barquera.html

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Scholarly Works:

Juárez,O.,Morgan, J.E., Nilges, M.J. and Barquera,B. 2010. Energy transducing redox steps of the Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase from Vibrio cholerae. PNAS 107:12505-12510.
Juárez, O., Athearn, K., Gillespie, P., Barquera, B. 2009. Acid residues in the transmembrane helices of the Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Na+-NQR) from Vibrio cholerae involved in sodium translocation. Biochemistry 48:9516-9524.

Name:	Donna L Bedard
Title:	Research Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science

Chris Bjornsson

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Name:	Chris Bjornsson
Title:	Research Assistant Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science
Center	Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)

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bioimaging

Chuck Boylen

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Name:	Chuck Boylen
Title:	Professor & Associate Director of Darrin Fresh Water Institute
Department	Biology
School	Science
Center	Darrin Fresh Water Institute (DFWI)
Website:	http://homepages.rpi.edu/~boylec/

Bio As Professor of Biology and Associate Director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute (DFWI) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Dr. Boylen oversees in conjunction with the Director all aspects of running the research field station, including funding, research, teaching and administration. Dr. Boylen is internationally known for his New York State limnology research, particularly in the Adirondacks and Lake George. Dr. Boylen’s research has been federally funded by National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institute of Health, as well as state and local agencies. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 articles published in highly ranked academic journals and has supervised more than 40 graduate student theses.

Dr. Boylen is actively involved with a number of environmentally focused organizations which include the Hudson River Environmental Society, Fund for Lake George, and the Lake George Watershed Coalition. Since the 1970’s he has maintained an active limnological research program on Lake George and numerous freshwater systems in NY and the Adirondacks. His research results have been applied to community and policy issues relating the impact of human activities on water quality, particularly how watershed practices negatively impact stormwater runoff. Dr. Boylen served as a Co-PI for the Adirondack Effects Assessment Program (EPA funded 1994-2006), and currently serves on the New York State Invasive Species Advisory Committee, a NYSERDA funded program of which he also serves as a Co-PI.

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Education Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin (1969)

Scholarly Works:

Percent, S.F., M.E. Frischer, P.A. Vescio, E.B. Duffy, V.Milano, M.McLellan, B.M. Stevens, C.W. Boylen and S.A. Nierzwicki-Bauer. 2008. Bacterial community structure of acid impacted lakes: What controls diversity? Accepted with revision October 2007 to Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Lawrence, G.B., J.W. Sutherland, C.W. Boylen, S.A. Nierzwicki-Bauer, B. Momen, B.P. Baldigo, and H.A. Simonin, 2007. Acid rain effects on aluminum mobilization

Chris Bystroff

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — bystrc

Name:	Chris Bystroff
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/bystrc

Bio My lab studies the folding of proteins via structural bioinformatics, molecular simulations, and protein design. We are focused on the folding of green fluorescent protein and its application as a computationally programmable peptide biosensor. We use Hidden Markov models, kinetic simulations, data mining, machine learning, whole gene assembly and other molecular biology techniques, and Xray crystallography.

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Huang Y-M, Nayak S, Bystroff C. (2011) Quantitative in vivo solubility and reconstitution of truncated circular permutants of green fluorescent protein. Protein Science (in review)
Ramakrishnan V, Srinivasan S, Salem SM, Zaki MJ , Matthews SJ, Colon W, & Bystroff C. (2011) GeoFold: Topology-based protein unfolding pathways capture the effects of engineered disulfides on kinetic stability. Proteins (in review)

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Fulbright Fellow
NSF Career Award

Donna E. Crone

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — croned

Name:	Donna E. Crone
Title:	Professor of Practice
Department	Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://homepages.rpi.edu/~croned/

Bio Research interests: genomics; molecular biology and bioinformatics; biochemical expression and purification of genetically engineered proteins.

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Education Ph.D. Duke University (Molecular Virology) A.B. magna cum laude Colgate University (Biology)

Scholarly Works:

D. Crone, J. Rueda, K. L. Martin, D. A. Hamilton and & J. P. Mascarenhas. 2001. The differential expression of a heat shock promoter in floral and reproductive tissues. Plant, Cell & Environment. 24: 869-874
Campbell, SA, Crone DE, Ceccardi ,TL, Close, TJ. 1998. A ca. 40 kDa maize (Zea mays L.) embryo dehydrin is encoded by the dhn2 locus on chromosome 9. Plant Mol Biol. 1998 Oct;38(3):417-23.

Susan P. Gilbert

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — gilbes2

Name:	Susan P. Gilbert
Title:	Professor & Department Head
Department	Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/gilbert.html

Bio Dr. Gilbert trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Kenneth Johnson at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, and joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. Dr. Gilbert moved to Rensselaer in 2007.

She is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, a member of Council and Chair of the Membership Committee for the Biophysical Society, Fellow and member of the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Nanomedicine as well as member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is on the editorial boards for the Biophysical Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nanomedicine, and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine.

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Education A.B. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA Chemistry Ph.D. Dartmouth College Cell Biology

Michael H Hanna

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — hannam

Name:	Michael H Hanna
Title:	Assoc Prof , Bio & Assoc Dean, Undergraduate Ed & Director ALAC
Department	Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/hanna.html

Bio Prior research interests involved both bacterial and single-celled eukaryotic organisms for the study of DNA replication, development, pathogenesis, and protein engineering. Current interests are in scientific teaching methodologies, academic advising, and administration of departmental and Institute programs. Responsibilities in the biology department include Director of the Accelerated Physician/Scientist Program while responsibilities as Associate Dean in Undergraduate Education include Director of the Advising and Learning Assistance Center.

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Jane Koretz

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — koretj

Name:	Jane Koretz
Title:	Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science

Bio Jane Koretz received her B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College, and her Ph.D. in biophysics from The University of Chicago for her work on skeletal muscle myosin ATPase with Edwin W. Taylor. She was a Muscular Dystrophy Association post-doctoral fellow at the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit, King’s College, London, before joining the faculty at Rensselaer, and was the recipient of a Fulbright for her sabbatical work at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology (University of Oxford).

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Lee Ligon

Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — ligonl

Name:	Lee Ligon
Title:	Assistant Professor
Department	Biology
School	Science
Center	Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/ligon.html

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Other - Foundation

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Biotechnology

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Education Ph.D. University of Virginia Neuroscience