About the Summer Research Institute

• Biology  (Faculty Representative: Professor Jon Snow)
• Chemistry (Faculty Representative: Professor Christian Rojas)
• Cognitive Science (Faculty Representative: Professor John Morrison)
• Computer Science (Faculty Representative: Professor Brian Plancher)
• Environmental Science (Faculty Representative: Professor Martin Stute)
• Mathematics & Statistics (Faculty Representative: Professor Daniela De Silva)
• Neuroscience & Behavior (Faculty Representative: Professor John Glendinning)
• Physics and Astronomy (Faculty Representative: Professor Reshmi Mukherjee)
• Psychology (Faculty Representative: Professor Kate Thorson)

About one-third of SRI students in a given summer work with mentors whose academic home is at Barnard College. All other students work with mentors at Columbia (including the Medical School, Mailman School of Public Health, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Zuckerman Institute, and others), NYU, the Icahn School, The Rockefeller University, and many others across New York City. Below, find a list of Barnard mentors participating in SRI this year:

Biology

• Bauer, Elizabeth, ebauer@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying emotional memory)
• Callahan, Hilary, hcallahan@barnard.edu (Ecological genetics)
• Glendinning, John, jglendin@barnard.edu (Chemical senses, ingestive behavior, food likes and dislikes)
• Lopatkin, Allison, alopatki@barnard.edu (The spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations)
• Mansfield, Jennifer, jmansfield@barnard.edu (Developmental genetics, Vertebrate development)
• Miranda, JJ, jmiranda@barnard.edu (Genome organization of human viruses associated with cancer)
• Morton, Brian, bmorton@barnard.edu (Evolution of plastid DNA)
• Pischedda, Alison, apischedda@barnard.edu, (Evolutionary Genetics & Animal Behavior)
• Snow, Jonathan, jsnow@barnard.edu (The cellular stress responses of the honey bee)

Chemistry

• Buzzeo, Marisa, mbuzzeo@barnard.edu, Biological Physical Chemistry (The Buzzeo group uses electrochemical techniques to study fundamental properties and develop sensing applications of redox-active biological molecules.)
• Campbell, Michael, mcampbell@barnard.edu, Inorganic Chemistry (The Campbell group studies structure/function relationships in transition metal complexes and materials, for applications including catalysis and chemical sensing.)
• Donegan, Rebecca, rdonegan@barnard.edu, Biochemistry (The Donegan lab studies how bacterial pathogens acquire essential metals and metallonutrients from the host and incorporate these nutrients into their metabolism.)
• Liu, Suqing, sqliu@barnard.edu, Teaching Lab Experiment Development (Dr. Liu and her students will develop and test new experiments for the General Chemistry Laboratory curriculum.  This work will involve writing and validation of experimental procedures, including use of instrumentation.)
• Rojas, Christian, crojas@barnard.edu, Organic Synthesis (Rojas and his students develop and apply new reactions for organic chemical synthesis, especially in the area of amino sugar synthesis. Another current interest is working with Prof. Christina Vizcarra's group on the synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors of actin assembly)
• Vizcarra, Christina, cvizcarra@barnard.edu, Biochemistry (The Vizcarra lab studies the biochemical mechanisms of proteins that regulate the cytoskeleton, with wide-ranging applications in metalloneurochemistry, the auditory system, and drug discovery.)

Computer Science

• Moretti, Antonio, amoretti@barnard.edu (Statistical Analysis, Computational Genomics)
• Plancher, Brian, bplancher@barnard.edu (Robotics, Numerical Optimization, CS Education)
• Soros, Lisa, lsoros@barnard.edu (Evolutionary Algorithms, Game Design and AI Agents)

Environmental Science

• Brenner, Logan, lbrenner@barnard.edu (Corals and Climate Change)
• Cook, Elizabeth, ecook@barnard.edu (Sustainability and Urban Ecology)   
• Maenza-Gmelch, Terryanne, maenzag@barnard.edu (Forest ecology, bird conservation)
• Mailloux, Brian, bmailloux@barnard.edu (Arsenic in groundwater, Geomicrobiology)
• Rodriguez, Sedelia, srodriguez@barnard.edu (Vulcanology)
• Stute, Martin, mstute@barnard.edu (Global change, water, and energy)

Math & Statistics

• Students should be in touch with Barnard Faculty Department Rep Daniela De Silva (ddesilva@barnard.edu) to discuss possibilities of working with Columbia University mentors.

Neuroscience & Behavior

• Balsam, Peter, pbalsam@barnard.edu (Adapting behavior to changing environments)
• Bauer, Elizabeth, ebauer@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying emotional memory)
• Fernandez, Maria, mfernand@barnard.edu (Neural mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior and territoriality and the relation between the circadian clock and social behaviors, using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system)
• Glendinning, John, jglendin@barnard.edu (Chemical senses, ingestive behavior, food likes and dislikes)
• Romeo, Russell, rromeo@barnard.edu (Effects of pubertal maturation on brain and behavior)
• White, Alex, alwhite@barnard.edu (Visual perception, attention & reading)

Physics & Astronomy

• Halpin-Healy, Timothy, healy@phys.columbia.edu, (Phase transitions, critical phenomena, and the renormalization group)
• Mukherjee, Reshmi, muk@astro.columbia.edu (High-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics)

Psychology

• Thorson, Katherine, kthorson@barnard.edu (psychological and psychophysiological reactions during interpersonal interactions)