Biological Chemistry Faculty
Core Faculty
These faculty have primary appointments in the Department of Chemistry.
Bren, Kara L.
she/her/hers
Richard S. Eisenberg Professor in Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 448 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4335
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry
Jiang, Yishu
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Office Location
- 423 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-0139
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Catalysis; Ultrafast spectroscopy and cell imaging
McCamant, David W.
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B30 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3122
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular dynamics in photochemistry; mechanisms of vibrational relaxation
Nilsson, Bradley L.
he/him/his
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Materials Science Program
- Office Location
- 417 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3053
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Peptide self-assembly; amyloid peptides; amyloid-inspired materials; bioorganic chemistry; supramolecular chemistry
Partridge, Benjamin E.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office Location
- 419 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1404
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Supramolecular chemistry; Bioinspired materials; Self-assembly in water; Protein engineering
Cluster Affiliated Faculty
Faculty in the clusters have primary appointments in other departments but can mentor chemistry graduate students.
Ghaemmaghami, Sina
George Y. and Catherine H. Wu Professor in Chemistry
Professor of Biology
Director, Undergraduate Research
Research Active
Now accepting:
PhD students
Please email with inquiries.
- Office Location
- 326A Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4829
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Protein folding and degradation; Neurodegenerative diseases and aging; Prion biology; Proteomics
Grossfield, Alan
he/him/his
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4193
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation
Mathews, David H.
Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Office Location
- 3-8816 MC
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1734
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Computational biology of RNA, including structure prediction, molecular dynamics, and genomics
Miller, Benjamin L.
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Professor of the Institute for Optics
- Office Location
- 5-6141A MC
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Developing new strategies for the sequence-selective recognition of RNA, and using the optical properties of nanostructured materials for the production of novel biosensors
Research Professors
Research professors do not accept graduate students, but have active research programs within the department.
Ebetino, Frank Hal
Professor of Chemistry, Research
- Telephone
- (513) 532-4084
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medicinal chemistry and drug design, including bisphosphonates and bone targeted drugs for arthritis and cancer, receptor agonists/antagonists, and epigenetic enzyme inhibitors
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct faculty do not accept new graduate students and now have appointments elsewhere, although some of their students are still based at the University of Rochester.
Fasan, Rudi
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Organic chemistry and chemoenzymatic synthesis; asymmetric biocatalysis; protein engineering; bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology
Emeritus Faculty
Emeritus faculty no longer teach courses or graduate students, but many are still active contributors to the intellectual life of the department, serving as co-advisors, mentors, and running research programs.
Krugh, Thomas R.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4231
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; structural analysis of biomolecules, energy minimization and molecular dynamics calculations
Turner, Douglas H.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
- Office Location
- B08 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3207
Interests: Biophysical chemistry: nucleic acid structure and function, RNA folding, therapeutics, and prediction of structure from sequence