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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Acting Chair: Arthur G. Palmer, III

Director of Graduate Studies: Alvin I. Krasna, Ph.D.
3-435 Physicians and Surgeons Building 630 W. 168th St. New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.305.3887
e-mail:aik3@columbia.edu


Dissertation Sponsors

Richard Axel:
Professor Biochemistry, M.D., Johns Hopkins, 1970
Interests: Molecular genetic analysis of olfactory perception;Central and peripheral oranization of the olfactory system
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kathryn L. Calame:
Professor, Ph.D., George Washington University, 1975
Interests: Lymphocyte development; transcriptional regulation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen P. Goff:
Professor (Biochemistry), Ph.D., Stanford, 1978
Interests: Structure and function of retrovirus genomes and expression;Retroviral replication; Molecular biology of retrovirus replication; tyrosine kinases and signal transduction pathways
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Max E. Gottesman:
Professor, Ph.D. M.D. Degree, Yale, 1960
Interests: Gene regulation and protein folding in E. coli phages and temperate coli phages; differentiation and oncogenesis in thyroid cells
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Greene:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1998
Interests: Molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair; single molecule fluorescence microscopy and other biochemical approaches.;Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) to study the molecular machinery involved in the recombination and repair of damaged DNA
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Iva S. Greenwald:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1982
Interests: Cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wayne A. Hendrickson:
Professor (Biochemistry), Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1968
Interests: Structural biology of macromolecules; diffraction and computational methods; X-ray craystallography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David I. Hirsh:
Professor, Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1968
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Oliver Hobert:
Associate Professor (Biochemistry), Ph.D., Max-Planck Institute, 1995
Interests: Genetic programs that control neural development in C. elegans
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barry Honig:
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, Tel Aviv; Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel), 1964, 1968
Interests: Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Thomas M. Jessell:
Professor (Biochemistry), Ph.D., Cambridge, 1977
Interests: Research into the molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in the developing vertebrate nervous system
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eric Kandel:
University Professor (Physiology), M.D., New York University, 1956
Interests: Neurobiology of learning and memory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arthur Karlin:
Professor, Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1962
Interests: The function of receptors in terms of molecular structures
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alvin I. Krasna:
Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1955
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barbara W. Low:
Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer, Ph.D., Oxford, 1948
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard S. Mann:
Professor (Biochemistry), Ph.D., MIT, 1986
Interests: Development in drosophila menalogaster
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arthur G. Palmer, III:
Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina, 1989
Interests: Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the structure, function and dynamics of proteins, protein-ligand and protein-receptor complexes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Burkhard Rost:
AssociateProfessor, Ph.D.,, Ruprecht-Karl University, Germany, 1994
Interests: Computational analysis relating gene sequence to 3D protein structure;Bioinformatics. Goals: sequence analysis, prediction of protein structure and function. Means: Statistics and artificial intelligence
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lawrence S. Shapiro:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ph.D., Columbia, 1996
Interests: Structural information obtained from X-ray crystallography to direct biochemical studies of biological problems, particularly involving neuronal cell adhesion and neural patterning
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Parithychery R. Srinivasan:
Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Ph.D., Madras, 1953
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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