معرفی
Sozanne Solmaz is an Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at Binghamton University (SUNY) within the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD from Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and conducted postdoctoral research with Nobel laureate Gunter Blobel at Rockefeller University. Her research focuses on nuclear positioning mechanisms critical for brain and muscle development, neuromuscular diseases (e.g., spinal muscular atrophy), and Alzheimer’s disease therapies. She employs structural biology (cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography), biophysics, and biochemistry to study cytoskeletal motors and nuclear pore complexes. Her work is funded by NIH grant R01 GM144578.
Education:
- PhD, Goethe University & Max Planck Institute of Biophysics (2006)
- MS, Leibniz University of Hannover (2001)
Research Interests:
- Nuclear positioning pathways and their role in neurodevelopment
- Mechanisms of Bicaudal D2 (BicD2) in cargo recognition and dynein activation
- Structural basis of nuclear pore complex dilation/constriction
- Therapeutic design targeting tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease
Grants & Funding:
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH R01 GM144578)
Labs & Teams: Principal Investigator of a lab focused on molecular mechanisms of nuclear transport and disease-related protein interactions.
