{"id":15,"date":"2016-07-13T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/biochem\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:32:09","slug":"faculty-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/biochem\/faculty\/faculty-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program, there are 16 faculty members with primary appointment in Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology, plus 11 who have secondary appointments in Biochemistry &amp; 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 <a href=\"\/biochem\/faculty\/honors\/\">click here<\/a>. To go directly to their laboratory website, please click on the link below the faculty member's name.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Oluwatoyin A. Asojo, PhD, BSC<\/b><br \/>\nAssociate Director for Inclusive Excellence of Dartmouth Cancer Center and Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php\/?uid=8447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Charles K. Barlowe, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nJames C. Chilcott Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Intracellular trafficking and quality control in the early secretory pathway<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/barlowe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Emme Burgin, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Engineering<br \/>\n<i>Enzyme engineering, molecular simulation, computational chemistry, machine learning<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/burginlab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Ta Yuan Chang, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Cellular cholesterol homeostasis in health and human diseases<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/chang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Duane A. Compton, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Mechanisms of chromosomal instability in cancer<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/compton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Jay C. Dunlap, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nNathan Smith Professor of Molecular &amp; Systems Biology and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Genetics and molecular biology of circadian clocks in fungi and mammals, and also fungal genomics and photobiology<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/dunlaploros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Scott A. Gerber, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Molecular &amp; Systems Biology and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Quantitative mass spectrometry and proteomics to understand oncogenic kinase signaling in lung cancer<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gerberlab.dartmouth.edu\/k\/main.kldk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Henry N. Higgs, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nJohn La Porte Given Professor in Cytology, Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Molecular mechanisms controlling actin dynamics in mammals, focusing on the formins INF2 (kidney disease) and FMNL3 (filopodia assembly, cell-cell adhesion)<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/higgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Arminja N. Kettenbach, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Mechanisms of phosphorylation signaling in cell division<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kettenbachlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>F. Jon Kull, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nRodgers Professor of Chemistry and Dean of School of Graduate and Advanced\u00a0Studies<br \/>\n<i>Protein crystallography, molecular motors, cellular transport mechanisms, enzyme mechanisms, transcription factors, bacterial virulence, and cholera<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/kull_lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Soni Lacefield, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<em>Meiotic cell cycle regulation and oogenesis<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/lacefield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Jennifer Landino, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<em>Cytoskeletal dynamics at the cell cortex during cell division<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/landino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Jiwon Lee, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nRalph and Marjorie Crump Assistant Professor of Engineering<br \/>\n<em>Antibody repertoire profiling; systems immunology; protein engineering; vaccine designs<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lee-lab.engineering.dartmouth.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Gustav E. Lienhard, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Cellular signaling pathways, hormonal regulation of membrane trafficking<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/lienhard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Dean R. Madden PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology, Dartmouth Vice Provost for Research<br \/>\n<i>Molecular mechanisms of ion channel activation, desensitization, and trafficking<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dartmouth.edu\/maddenlab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Prerna Malaney, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<em>RNA-binding protein function in health and disease<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaneylab.org\/home\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Dale F. Mierke, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Chemistry<br \/>\n<i>Structural characterization of peptides and proteins with the ultimate goal of therapeutic design<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chem\/faculty\/DFM.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>James B. Moseley, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nChair and Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Protein networks that link cell growth and division in fission yeast<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/moseley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Lawrence C. Myers, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Medical Education and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Biochemical and genetic approaches to determine how novel gene regulatory mechanisms in fungal pathogens control virulence and drug resistance<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/myers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Ekaterina V. Pletneva, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Chemistry<br \/>\n<i>Bioinorganic chemistry, redox reactivity and conformational dynamics of heme proteins<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chem\/faculty\/evp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Michael J. Ragusa, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Chemistry<br \/>\n<i>Protein crystallography, small angle x-ray scattering, peripheral membrane proteins, and autophagy<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.dartmouth.edu\/people\/michael-j-ragusa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Paul Robustelli, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Chemistry<br \/>\n<em>Develops and applies computational methods to obtain atomic-level descriptions of the functional motions of biomolecules, with a particular interest in intrinsically disordered proteins.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robustellilab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher J. Shoemaker, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<em>Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy and endolysosomal trafficking in mammalian cells<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/shoemaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radu V. Stan, MD, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<em>Biology of endothelial cell function<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php\/?uid=2820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Surachai Supattapone, MD, PhD, DPhil<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology and of Medicine (Infectious Disease)<br \/>\n<i>Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/supattapone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>William T. Wickner, MD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology<br \/>\n<i>Mechanisms of fusion of biological membranes<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~wickner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lab Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Lee A. Witters, MD<\/b><br \/>\nEugene W. Leonard 1921 Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College; Director, Humanitates Vitae (the Human Biology Program at Dartmouth)<br \/>\n<i>Acute and chronic regulation of metabolic enzymes by hormones and other factors<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php?uid=108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Emeritus Faculty<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Constance E. Brinckerhoff, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Medicine and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology Emeritus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles N. Cole, PhD<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology and of Molecular &amp; Systems Biology Emeritus<\/li>\n<li><b>Leslie P. Henderson, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Physiology and Neurobiology and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology Emeritus<\/li>\n<li><b>Jennifer J. Loros, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology and of Molecular &amp; Systems Biology<\/li>\n<li><b>Robert A. Maue, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Medical Education and of Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology Emeritus<\/li>\n<li><b>Oscar A. Scornik, MD, PhD<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor of Biochemistry Emeritus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program, there are 16 faculty members with primary appointment in Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology, plus 11 who have secondary appointments in Biochemistry &amp; Cell Biology or other departments at Dartmouth. 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