Current Lab Members
Chris Turner, Ph.D
SUNY Distinguished Professor
BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Sheffield, UK, 1983
Ph.D in Cell Biology, University of Oxford, UK, 1986
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill, !987
Joined the faculty at Upstate Medical University in 1991.
While working as a postdoc. I discovered, and named the protein Paxillin. Our ongoing research over the past nearly 30 years has identified paxillin and its close relative Hic-5 as key focal adhesion adapter proteins that facilitate and coordinate cell communication with the extracellular environment to regulate cytoskeleton remodeling, cell motility, tissue morphogenesis and cancer progression.
Nicholas Zehrbach, BS
Graduate Student
Nicholas is investigating the role of paxillin in the regulation of microtubule acetylation and protein trafficking.
Ben Capella, BS
Graduate Student
Ben is exploring actin-intermediate filament crosstalk in CAFs
Katia Brock, BS
Graduate Student
Katia is studying vimentin organization and function in relation to focal adhesions using BioID
Grant Brennan, BS
Research Support Specialist
Grant is the newest member of the lab, coming from James Madison University, where he studied Biotechnology.
