Barbara Studamire
Assistant Professor
Biology
Location: 417a Ingersoll Hall Extension
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6251
Fax: 718.951.4659
Email:
Barbara Studamire is an assistant professor of biology and teaches courses at the undergraduate level in microbiology and general biology, and has taught courses at the graduate level in cell biology, molecular biology, journal club, and virology.
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University - 2001 (Genetics)
B.A., Hunter College (CUNY) - 1993 (Biological Sciences)
Areas of Expertise:
Dr. Studamire analyzes interactions between retrovirus and host using the tools of genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry. Her lab focuses primarily on the interactions between the retrovirus integrase protein and host chromatin-binding proteins. Dr. Studamire's interaction screens identified a family of proteins that are the first proteins shown to play a role in Moloney murine leukemia virus integration targeting.
Books and Publications
Aiyer, S., G.V.T. Swapna, N. Malani, J.M. Aramini, W.M. Schneider, M.R. Plumb, R.C. Larue, M. Ghanem, B. Studamire, M. Kvaratskhelia, F.D. Bushman, G.T. Montelione and M.J. Roth. "Altering Murine Leukemia Virus Integration Through Disruption of the Integrase and BET Protein Family Interaction." Nucleic Acids Res. 42:5917-5928. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Samarrai, W., D.X. Liu, A.-M. White, B. Studamire, J. Edelstein, A. Srivastava, R.L. Widom and R. Rudner. "Differential Responses of Bacillus subtilis rRNA Promoters to Nutritional Stress." Journal of Bacteriology 193: 723-33. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Studamire, B. and S.P. Goff. "Interactions of Host Proteins With the Murine Leukemia Virus Integrase." Viruses 2: 1110-45. doi:10.3390/v2051110 (review). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Studamire, B. and S.P. Goff. "Host Proteins Interacting With the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Integrase: Multiple Transcriptional Regulators and Chromatin Binding Factors." Retrovirology 5: 48. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Sugawara, N., T. Goldfarb, B. Studamire, E. Alani and JE Haber. "Heteroduplex Rejection During Single-strand Annealing Requires Sgs1 helicase and Mismatch Repair Proteins Msh2 and Msh6 but Not Pms1." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 101: 9315-20. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Kijas, AW, B. Studamire and E. Alani. "Msh2 Separation of Function Mutations Confer Defects in the Initiation Steps of Mismatch Repair." Journal of Molecular Biology 33: 123-38. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2003
Studamire, B., G. Price, N. Sugawara, J. Haber and E. Alani. "Separation-of-function Mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae MSH2 That Confer Mismatch Repair Defects but Do Not Affect Nonhomologous-tail Removal During Recombination." Molecular and Cellular Biology 19: 7558-67. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1999
Studamire, B., T. Quach and E. Alani. "Saccharomyces cerevisiae Msh2p and Msh6p ATPase Activities Are Both Required During Mismatch Repair." Molecular and Cellular Biology 18: 7590-01. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1998
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Dr. Studamire was granted a fellowship leave (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
PSC-CUNY Award, City University of New York. "The role of cofactors in MoMLV infection and in the nuclear localization of Integrase." (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
PSC-CUNY Award TRADB-45-351, for "The Role of Cofactors in MoMLV Infection and in the Nuclear Llocalization of Integrase.". (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
PSC-CUNY Award, for "Elucidating the Role of Host Factors in Retroviral Infection and Integration". (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
NIGMS Pilot Research Award, for "The Influence of Host Factors on Retroviral Integration Into Chromatin Templates." 2009-12. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
PSC-CUNY Award, for "Host Factors Interacting With the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Integrase." (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
New Faculty Award, Brooklyn College (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Research Activities
Dr. Studamire participated in a course at the Wood's Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, 'Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structure' (STAMPS) 2017
Participated in the Digital Boot Camp workshop conducted by the CUNY Digital Research Fellows Program, Graduate Center Digital Research Institute (GCDI) 2016
Poster presentation by two undergraduate students, Brooklyn College Science Poster Day 2015
MCD and biochemistry rotation seminar series talks, CUNY Graduate Center, New York 2013
Two posters presented by undergraduate and graduate students, Brooklyn College Science Fair 2013
Two posters presented by undergraduate and graduate students, Brooklyn College Science Retreat 2013
Molecular Biology Laboratory Group Meetings, Brooklyn College 2011
Molecular Biology Laboratory Group Meetings, Brooklyn College 2010
Molecular Biology Laboratory Group Meetings, Brooklyn College 2009
Molecular Biology Laboratory Group Meetings, Brooklyn College 2008
Molecular Biology Laboratory Group Meetings, Brooklyn College 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Retroviruses meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Research Laboratories, NY. Poster: Intracellular localization of Moloney murine leukemia virus Integrase and Brd2. Wudzinska, A., E. Callejo, and B. Studamire
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College (CUNY). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Professional Leadership
Ph.D. committee member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Chair, Biology Department Space Committee, Brooklyn College (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Member, Faculty Council (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2019
Member, Faculty Council (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Chair, Biology Department Space Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Ph.D. committee member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2018
Member, Faculty Council (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
Ph.D. committee member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2017
M.A. thesis committee chair and advisor, two students (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member of COACHE Facilities Working Group (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member, Faculty Council (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
M.A. program thesis adviser, two students (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
PhD student second level examination committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Member, Ingersoll Hall Extension Renovation Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Member, Master of Arts program Advisory Committee, Biology Department (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Graduate Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College representative to the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Biology (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Member, Master of Arts Program Advisory Committee, Biology Department. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Member, Prokaryotic New Faculty Search Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Dr. Studamire worked on revisions to the undergraduate general biology course (BIOL 1001/1002) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Graduate Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College representative to the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Biology (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Prokaryotic New Faculty Search Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Thesis adviser, M.A. program (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Alternate member, Faculty Council (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Graduate Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College representative to the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Biology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Helped to revise the undergraduate general biology course (BIOL 1001/1002). (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Biochemistry Ph.D. Program Admissions Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Member, Brooklyn College Retreat Planning Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Alternate member, Faculty Council. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Graduate Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College representative to the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Biology. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Member, Brooklyn College Retreat Planning Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Member, Biology Department Research and Administrative Space Allocation and Redesign Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008
Community Activities
Mentor and advisor, undergraduate research students 2019
Undergraduate Poster evaluation, Biology Department, Brooklyn College 2019
Mentor and advisor, undergraduate research students 2018
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2018
Mentor and advisor, undergraduate research students 2017
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2017
Graduate student rotation supervisor, MCD program, City University of New York 2016
Liaison between the Cornell University Molecular Biology graduate program and the Brooklyn College MARC program office. This is an ongoing effort to recruit students from the Brooklyn College Biology Department for Ph.D. programs and summer research programs at Cornell University. 2016
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2016
Undergraduate Poster evaluation, Biology Department, Brooklyn College 2016
Ad-Hoc manuscript reviewer 2015
Liaison between the Cornell University Molecular Biology graduate program and the Brooklyn College MARC program office. This is an ongoing effort to recruit students from the Brooklyn College Biology Department for Ph.D. programs and summer research programs at Cornell University. 2015
Program in Biochemistry, CUNY GC, First Level exam preparation and scoring 2015
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2014
Liaison between the Cornell University Molecular Biology graduate program and the Brooklyn College MARC program office. This is an ongoing effort to recruit students from the Brooklyn College Biology Department for PhD programs and summer research programs at Cornell University. 2013
Member, Second-level Examination Committee Member, PhD Program, Hunter College (CUNY), one student 2013
Liaison between the Cornell University Molecular Biology graduate program and the Brooklyn College MARC program office. This is an ongoing effort to recruit students from the Brooklyn College Biology Department for Ph.D. programs and summer research programs at Cornell University. 2012
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2012
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science conference (SACNAS), Seattle, WA 2012
Liaison between the Cornell University Molecular Biology graduate program and the Brooklyn College MARC program office. This is part of an effort to recruit more students to Ph.D. programs in the Brooklyn College Biology Department. 2011
Program in Biology, MCD subprogram, First Level exam question preparation and scoring 2011
Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for three students. 2010
Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for three students. 2009
Other Professional Activities
Ad-Hoc proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation 2018
Housing award, STAMPS course, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA 2017
Doctoral Thesis Committee Chair, one student 2014
M.A. program thesis adviser, three students 2014
Leadership Alliance Faculty Retreat. Chicago, IL. 2013
M.A. program thesis adviser, two students 2013
Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for one student 2013
Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for two students 2012
Thesis adviser, M.A. program 2012
"Viruses and Oncogenes: A Symposium to Celebrate Stephen Goff's Continuing Legacy." Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. 2011
Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for two students. 2011
Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for two students. 2010
Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for two students 2009
Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee, for three students. 2008
