Faculty & Staff
Biochemistry Program Director
Shailja Pathania
Title: Biochemistry Program Director
Department: Biology
Email: Shailja.Pathania@umb.edu
Department Chairs
Jason Evans
Title: Department Chair
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6149
Email: Jason.Evans@umb.edu
Rachel Skvirsky
Title: Department Chair
Department: Biology
Phone: 617.287.6617
Email: Rachel.Skvirsky@umb.edu
Biochemistry Program Committee Members
Daniel Dowling
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.5853
Email: Daniel.Dowling@umb.edu
Michelle Foster
Title: Assoc Professor U of M
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6096
Email: Michelle.Foster@umb.edu
Marianna Torok
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: Marianna.Torok@umb.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Steven Ackerman
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Honors College
Email: Steven.Ackerman@umb.edu
Changmeng Cai
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Phone: 617.287.3537
Email: Changmeng.Cai@umb.edu
Expertise: Prostate cancer research, androgen receptor signaling, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation...
Adan Colon-Carmona
Title: Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Adan.Colon-carmona@umb.edu
Expertise: Cell Cycle Control, Regulation of the Cytoskeleton, Growth Responses to...Daniel Dowling
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.5853
Email: Daniel.Dowling@umb.edu
Expertise: Biochemistry, protein structure and function, macromolecular X-ray crystallography, enzymologyJason Evans
Title: Department Chair
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6149
Email: Jason.Evans@umb.edu
Expertise: Biological Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, Lipidomics
Michelle Foster
Title: Assoc Professor U of M
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6096
Email: Michelle.Foster@umb.edu
Expertise: Surface Science, Experimental Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry,
Jason Green
Title: Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6136
Email: Jason.Green@umb.edu
Expertise: Theoretical chemical physics, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, data science
William Hagar
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Email: William.Hagar@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental Monitoring, Plant Biochemistry, Photobiology
William Horton
Title: Lecturer
Department: Chemistry
Email: William.Horton@umb.edu
Expertise: Biological Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
Linda Huang
Title: Graduate Program Director/Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Linda.Huang@umb.edu
Expertise: Cell Biology: Signal Transduction and Regulation of Cell Morphology
Jill Macoska
Title: Distinguished University Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Jill.Macoska@umb.edu
Leslie McClain
Title: Program Manager
Department: Biology
Phone: 617.287.6649
Email: Leslie.McClain@umb.edu
Catherine McCusker
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Phone: 617.287.4473
Email: Catherine.McCusker@umb.edu
Expertise: Developmental biology, amphibian limb regeneration, development and implementation of novel...Shailja Pathania
Title: Biochemistry Program Director
Department: Biology
Email: Shailja.Pathania@umb.edu
Expertise: Cancer Biology, Breast and Ovarian Cancer, DNA Repair , Transcriptomics
Neil Reilly
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: Neil.Reilly@umb.edu
Expertise: Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry
Jens Rister
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Jens.Rister@umb.edu
Expertise: Molecular Biology, Developmental Genetics, Neurobiology
Jonathan Rochford
Title: Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: Jonathan.Rochford@umb.edu
Expertise: Synthetic & Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Niya Sa
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.3249
Email: Niya.Sa@umb.edu
Expertise: Electrochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Energy Science
Hannah Sevian
Title: Consultant
Department: Chemistry
Email: Hannah.Sevian@umb.edu
Expertise: Chemistry education, STEM education
Kellee Siegfried
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Kellee.Siegfried@umb.edu
Expertise: Developmental Biology, GeneticsRachel Skvirsky
Title: Department Chair
Department: Biology
Phone: 617.287.6617
Email: Rachel.Skvirsky@umb.edu
Expertise: Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, STEM Education and Diversity
Bela Torok
Title: Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: Bela.Torok@umb.edu
Expertise: Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis
Marianna Torok
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: Marianna.Torok@umb.edu
Expertise: Physical Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
Alexey Veraksa
Title: Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Alexey.Veraksa@umb.edu
Expertise: Cell Signaling and Gene Regulation in Development
Douglas Woodhams
Title: Professor
Department: Biology
Email: Douglas.Woodhams@umb.edu
Expertise: Disease Ecology
Wei Zhang
Title: Professor
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 617.287.6147
Email: Wei2.Zhang@umb.edu
Expertise: Organic synthesis, asymmetric organocatalysis, fluorous chemistry, free radical synthesis, medicinal...Affiliated Retired Faculty
- Kenneth Campbell
- Robert Carter, Emeritus Associate Professor