Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics

Departments and Divisions
- Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Languages Spoken
- Italian
- French
Education and Training
- PhD, 1997 Structural Biology, Cambridge University (United Kingdom)
NIH Grants
LEVERAGING PFCRT STRUCTURE TO DISCERN FUNCTION AND PREDICT EMERGENCE OF DRUGRESISTANT MALARIA (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2019 - Jun 30 2024
STRUCTURAL BASIS OF INTEGRAL MEMBRANE ENZYME FUNCTION (Federal Gov)
May 1 2019 - Apr 30 2024
HEME UTILIZATION BY MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS (Federal Gov)
Jan 1 2019 - Dec 31 2023
SIMONS SOCIETY FOR JUNIOR FELLOWS (Private)
Jul 1 2018 - Jun 30 2021
STRUCTURAL BASIS OF RECEPTOR-MEDIATED CELLULAR VITAMIN A UPTAKE (Federal Gov)
Apr 1 2017 - Mar 31 2021
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM CONCENTRATION ON STRA6- MEDIATED RETINOL UPTAKE (Federal Gov)
Sep 1 2018 - Aug 31 2020
LIPID BIOSYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION BY INTEGRAL-MEMBRANE ENZYMES (Federal Gov)
Sep 1 2015 - Aug 31 2019
LIPID BIOSYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION BY INTEGRAL-MEMBRANE ENZYMES (Federal Gov)
Sep 1 2015 - Aug 31 2019
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE SRD5A FAMILY OF ENZYMES THAT MEDIATE TESTOSTERONE ACTION (Private)
Aug 1 2017 - Jul 31 2019
STRUCTURAL BASIS OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDE BIOSYNTHESIS IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS (Private)
Jun 1 2016 - Dec 31 2017
STRUCTURAL BASIS OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDE BIOSYNTHESIS IN MYCOBACTERIUM (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2015 - Jun 30 2017
STRUCTURAL BASIS OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDE BIOSYNTHESIS IN MYCOBACTERIUM (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2015 - Jun 30 2017
CYSZ PROTEINS - A FAMILY OF SULFATE TRANSPORTERS WITH REMARKABLE ARCHITECTURE (Federal Gov)
May 1 2012 - Feb 28 2017
FLUORESCENCE METHODS FOR HT VALIDATION AND PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN COMPLEXES (Federal Gov)
Apr 1 2011 - Mar 31 2016
NYSBC STRUCTURAL GENOMICS OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2010 - Dec 31 2015
SPECTRAL REVELATIONS OF MITOCHONDRIAL CA2+ FLUX INTERACTOME CA2+ INTERACTOME (Federal Gov)
Aug 15 2014 - Aug 31 2015
NYSBC STRUCTURAL GENOMICS OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2010 - Jun 30 2015
GCE PHASE 2: DEFEATING INSECT-BORNE DISEASES USING ATOMIC RESOLUTION STRUCTURE (Private)
Jun 28 2012 - Jun 30 2015
AUTOMATED PROTEIN CRYSTAL OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2013 - Jun 30 2014
A NOVEL MRNA DISPLAY PLATFORM TO EVOLVE STABLE MUTANTS OF HUMAN MEMBRANE PROTEINS FOR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION BY X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (Private)
Jul 1 2013 - Jun 30 2014
STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS (Federal Gov)
Jul 1 2008 - Aug 31 2013
MARIE CURIE FELLOWSHIP (Private)
Apr 1 2011 - Mar 31 2013
IMAGING SYSTEM FOR HIGH - THROUGHPUT PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION EXPERIMENTS (Federal Gov)
Jun 10 2010 - Jun 9 2011
DEFEATING INSECT-BOURNE DISEASES USING ATOMIC-LEVEL STRUCTUR E (Private)
May 1 2010 - Apr 30 2011