Potential SURF Mentors
On this page you will find information about professors who agreed to consider hosting a SURF student during the summer of 2013. If you do not see anyone in your area of interest, please contact us at urop@bu.edu.
| Mentor Name | Department | Primary research areas of interest |
| Allen, Karen | CAS – Chemistry | Crystallography and Enzyme Mechanisms |
| Baum, Michael | CAS – Biology | Hormones; Reproduction |
| Bradham, Cynthia | CAS – Biology | Molecular Biology; Developmental Biology; Sea Urchin |
| Buston, Peter | CAS – Biology | Behavioral Ecology and Marine Ecology |
| Callard, Gloria | CAS – Biology | Molecular Endocrinology (Estrogen Signaling in Nervous System) |
| Celenza, John | CAS – Biology | Plant Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry |
| Cherry, James | CAS – Psychology | Neuroscience: Olfaction, Behavior, Neuroanatomy |
| Dominguez, Isabel | MED – Hematology-Oncology | Signaling Pathways; cardiac development and heart defects in mice and frogs; cancer |
| Eichenbaum, Howard | CAS – Psychology | Neurobiology of Memory |
| Eldred, William | CAS – Biology | Visual Neurobiology |
| Elliott, Sean | CAS – Chemistry | Biochemistry: Redox Enzymology, Metals in Biology |
| Finnerty, John | CAS – Biology | Marine Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Genomics |
| Finzi, Adrien | CAS – Biology | Forest Ecology and Biogeochemistry |
| Frydman, Horacio | CAS – Biology | Drosophila; Molecular Biology; Infectious Disease |
| Fulweiler, Robinson | CAS – Earth Sciences | Marine Biology, Biogeochemistry, Oceanography |
| Gardner, Tim | CAS – Biology | Neurobiology; Neural Circuits; Bird Song and Behavior |
| Gilmore, Thomas | CAS – Biology | Cancer Biology, Molecular Biology, Evolutionary Biology |
| Gummuluru, Rahm | MED – Microbiology | Molecular Virology: HIV-1 Pathogenesis |
| Hansen, Ulla | CAS – Biology | Cancer, Cell Cycle, Gene Expression Regulation, Cell Signaling, Proliferation, Cell Survival, Transcriptional Networks |
| Hasselmo, Michael | CAS – Psychology | Neurobiology – Computational Modeling of Neural Circuits |
| Ho, Angela | CAS – Biology | Alzheimer’s Disease; Transgenic Mouse Models |
| Kantak, Kathleen | CAS – Psychology | Behavioral Pharmacology/Behavioral Neuroscience |
| Lin, Jen-Wei | CAS – Biology | Electrophysiological and imaging studies of membrane excitability in axons and synapses |
| Liu, Pinghua | CAS – Chemistry | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Morgan, Elise | CAS – Biomedical Engineering | Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechanobiology |
| Mullen, Sean | CAS – Biology | Evolutionary Genetics, Population Genomics, Adaptation & Speciation |
| Naya, Frank | CAS – Biology | Cardiac Development & Disease, Mouse Development, Gene Regualtion |
| Man, Hengye | CAS – Biology | Synaptic Plasticity |
| Perlstein, Deborah | CAS – Chemistry | Chemistry |
| Primack, Richard | CAS – Biology | Biology |
| Porter, Tyrone | ENG – Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering |
| Schneider, Chris | CAS – Biology | Sexual Selection and Speciation in Caribbean Lizards |
| Segre, Daniel | CAS/ENG – Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics |
| Smith, Cassandra | ENG – Biomedical | Tumor Targeting with DNA, and Schizophrenia |
| Sorenson, Michael | CAS – Biology | Evolutionary Ecology of Birds |
| Templer, Pamela | CAS – Biology | Forest Ecology – Climate Change and Acid Rain |
| Tolan, Dean | CAS – Biology | Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics |
| Traniello, James | CAS – Biology | Neural Basis of Social Organization |