Elizabeth M. Boon
Assistant Professor

A.B. in Chemistry, Kenyon College, 1997; Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2003; NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2006

PECASE, 2009; ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award, 2008; NYSTAR James D. Watson Young Investigator Award, 2008; Office of Naval Reserach Young Investigator Award, 2008; Rising Star Award from the Research Foundation of SUNY, 2008

Phone: 631-632-7945
Email: elizabeth.boon@sunysb.edu

Positions Available
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BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY, AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Fundamentals and applications in biological sensing and signaling

We seek to understand sensing and signal transduction in bacteria from a molecular to a community level. As we learn more about the fundamentals of nitric oxide signaling in bacteria, known sensor proteins will be used in a modular approach for the design and engineering of new proteins and peptides that either mimic known structure or function or create new structure or function, with the aim of fundamentally understanding the natural system and using this knowledge to develop practical applications, primarily in human health and biotechnology.

The Boon Group is affiliated with several different graduate programs

Chemical Biology Training Program, the Graduate Program in Biochemistry & Structural Biology, the Graduate Program in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and the Graduate Program in Molecular & Cellular Biology.

For more information, visit our group website!