In the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program, there are 16 faculty members with primary appointment in Biochemistry & Cell Biology, plus 11 who have secondary appointments in Biochemistry & Cell Biology or other departments at Dartmouth. Our faculty are well funded for their research programs, publish their work in leading journals and present their findings at national and international meetings. To view a list of some of their honors/distinctions, please click here. To go directly to their laboratory website, please click on the link below the faculty member's name.
- Charles K. Barlowe, PhD
James C. Chilcott Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Intracellular trafficking and quality control in the early secretory pathway
Lab Website - Tucker Burgin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Enzyme engineering, molecular simulation, computational chemistry, machine learning
Lab Website - Ta Yuan Chang, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Cellular cholesterol homeostasis in health and human diseases
Lab Website - Duane A. Compton, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Dean of Geisel School of Medicine
Mechanisms of chromosomal instability in cancer
Lab Website - Jay C. Dunlap, PhD
Nathan Smith Professor and Chair of Molecular & Systems Biology and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Genetics and molecular biology of circadian clocks in fungi and mammals, and also fungal genomics and photobiology
Lab Website - Scott A. Gerber, PhD
Professor of Molecular & Systems Biology and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Quantitative mass spectrometry and proteomics to understand oncogenic kinase signaling in lung cancer
Lab Website - Henry N. Higgs, PhD
John La Porte Given Professor in Cytology, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Molecular mechanisms controlling actin dynamics in mammals, focusing on the formins INF2 (kidney disease) and FMNL3 (filopodia assembly, cell-cell adhesion)
Lab Website - Arminja N. Kettenbach, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Mechanisms of phosphorylation signaling in cell division
Lab Website - F. Jon Kull, PhD
Rodgers Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth Dean of Graduate Studies
Protein crystallography, molecular motors, cellular transport mechanisms, enzyme mechanisms, transcription factors, bacterial virulence, and cholera
Lab Website - Soni Lacefield, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Lab Website - Jennifer Landino, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Lab Website - Jiwon Lee, PhD
Ralph and Marjorie Crump Assistant Professor of Engineering
Antibody repertoire profiling; systems immunology; protein engineering; vaccine designs
Lab Website - Gustav E. Lienhard, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Cellular signaling pathways, hormonal regulation of membrane trafficking
Lab Website - Jennifer J. Loros, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and of Molecular & Systems Biology
Molecular and classical genetics of the circadian clock, fungal photobiology
Lab Website - Dean R. Madden PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Dartmouth Vice Provost for Research
Molecular mechanisms of ion channel activation, desensitization, and trafficking
Lab Website - Prerna Malaney, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Lab Website - Dale F. Mierke, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
Structural characterization of peptides and proteins with the ultimate goal of therapeutic design
Lab Website - James B. Moseley, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Protein networks that link cell growth and division in fission yeast
Lab Website - Lawrence C. Myers, PhD
Professor of Medical Education and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Biochemical and genetic approaches to determine how novel gene regulatory mechanisms in fungal pathogens control virulence and drug resistance
Lab Website - Ekaterina V. Pletneva, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry, redox reactivity and conformational dynamics of heme proteins
Lab Website - Michael J. Ragusa, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Protein crystallography, small angle x-ray scattering, peripheral membrane proteins, and autophagy
Lab Website - Paul Robustelli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Develops and applies computational methods to obtain atomic-level descriptions of the functional motions of biomolecules, with a particular interest in intrinsically disordered proteins.
Lab Website - Christopher J. Shoemaker, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Selective Autophagy in mammalian cells
Lab Website - Radu V. Stan, MD, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Biology of endothelial cell function
Lab Website
- Surachai Supattapone, MD, PhD, DPhil
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and of Medicine (Infectious Disease)
Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases
Lab Website - William T. Wickner, MD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Mechanisms of fusion of biological membranes
Lab Website - Lee A. Witters, MD
Eugene W. Leonard 1921 Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College; Director, Humanitates Vitae (the Human Biology Program at Dartmouth)
Acute and chronic regulation of metabolic enzymes by hormones and other factors
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Emeritus Faculty
- Constance E. Brinckerhoff, PhD
Professor of Medicine and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Emeritus - Charles N. Cole, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and of Molecular & Systems Biology Emeritus - Leslie P. Henderson, PhD
Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Emeritus - Robert A. Maue, PhD
Professor of Medical Education and of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Emeritus - Oscar A. Scornik, MD, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus