Peter Lipke

Professor of Biology
E-mail - plipke@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office - Room 505 NE, 718-951-5000 X1949
Lab - Room 505 NE, 718-951-5000 X1793

Fax: 718-951-4659  

Education

B.S. 1971, Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Ph.D. 1976, Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley
Postdoc. 1976-1978, Zoology, University of Wisconsin

Professional Positions

 

Department of Biology, Brooklyn College 2006-

Director, NIGMS-SCORE Research Program at Brooklyn College 2006-

Department of Biology, Hunter College 1978-2006

Director, Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program at Hunter College 1995-2006

Director, NIGMS-SCORE Research Program at Hunter College 2000-2006


Research Interests

Cell Adhesion in Fungal Life and Pathogenesis

            Baker's yeast sexual agglutinins

            Candida albicans Als proteins

 

Cell Surface Architecture in Yeast: a novel drug target

 

Bioinformatics and Evolution of Cell Walls in Fungi

       

Click here for Pubmed/Entrez listing of old and new papers from our lab

 

 

Lab members, 2004. Back: Juan Coronado (PhD student); Jason Rauceo, PhD student; Atina Silkovic, lab manager; Peter Lipke; Naira Rezende, undergraduate now a PhD student at Cornell-Weill; Henry Otoo, PhD student; Dr. Rafael Ovalle;  Marlyn Gonzalez, PhD student. Front: Timothy Akojenu, undergraduate; Naomi Thomas, MA student now a PhD student at seton Hall; Dr. Pearl Kipnis. Not shown: Alex Ismail now a PhD student at CUNY, Susan Minott,  Stephanie Ye, undergraduates; Drahmane Kaba, post-bacc, now a medical student at SUNY.

 

Lipke lab, 2002 (L-R: N. Rezende [undergrad], C. Paul [undergrad], J. Rauceo [doctoral student, now post-doc at Columbia], J. Bastien [undergrad, now a grad student at Columbia], M. Gonzalez [doctoral student], N. Thomas [MA student, now PhD student at Seton Hall], J. Duran [undergrad, now a doctoral student at U. Virginia], Dr. R. Ovalle, D. Marotta [technician], P. Lipke, Dr. P. Kipnis, F. Lim [MA student], T. Robinson [undergrad, now PhD student at Stony Brook], not shown: T. Alexis [undergrad, now PhD student at Columbia], J. Coronado [doctoral student])