People

We are accepting new members!

Postdoctoral applicants should send a cover letter, a CV, and contact information for three references to Jeremy by email.

Graduate students who are at Cornell or have accepted an admission offer should email Jeremy.

Prospective graduate students should apply for admission to one of Cornell’s graduate programs (e.g., Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology) and should also feel free to email Jeremy.

 

Principal Investigator

Jeremy M. Baskin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology
Cornell University
461 Weill Hall

Ithaca, New York 14853-7202
Tel: (607) 255-2887

Twitter: @basktastic
 

Affiliations:
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University

Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University
Graduate Field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University

Education:
2010-2015  Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine
2004-2009  Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

2000-2004  B.S. in Chemistry, Minors in Biology and Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Honors and Awards:
2020 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research (ASBMB) 
2019  
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Young Academic Investigator
2019  
Sloan Research Fellowship
2018
  NSF CAREER Award

2017  Beckman Young Investigator Award
2016  Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
2014  NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)

2010  Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
2010  Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2010  Brown-Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2004  National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
2004  National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2004  Phi Beta Kappa
2000  Silver Medal, 32nd International Chemistry Olympiad

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Brittany White
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
B.S., Chemistry, University of New Hampshire

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Oregon
Twitter: @BrittMW08

Dr. Hongyan Sun
B.S., Biological Science, Jilin Normal University
M.S. Agricultural Entomology, Jilin University
Ph.D., Biology, University of Miami

 

Graduate Students

Timothy Bumpus
NSF Graduate Fellow
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Chemistry, Biology, & Mathematics
Luther College

Adnan Shami Shah
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Chemistry
Bates College

Alex Batrouni
Grad. Field: BMCB
B.S., Biochemistry and Genetics
University of Sheffield

Dongjun Liang
Cornell Graduate Fellow
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Chemistry
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Reika Tei
Cornell Graduate Fellow; Funai Overseas Scholar
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.Eng., Chemistry and Biotechnology
University of Tokyo
Twitter: @ReikaTei

Xiaofu Cao
Cornell Graduate Fellow
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Biochemistry
Boston College

Weizhi Yu
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Chemical Biology
Peking University

Dylan Chiu
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, NCTU
M.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Shiying Huang
Grad. Field: Chemistry & Chemical Biology
B.S., Chemistry, UC Berkeley

 

Technician

Kane Wu
Chemistry (Class of 2020)
Cornell University

  

Alumni

Graduate Students
Jessica Daughtry PhD ’19 (Siemens Healthineers)
Undergraduate Students
Johnny Ye ’16
Wendy Cao ’18
Felice Liang ’19
Amith Punyala ’19
Amanda Conwell ’20
Chris Diaz ’20
Jonathan Lee ’20
Jade Pace ’20
Kane Wu ’20
Paris Ghazi ’21
Neal Vasireddi ’22

 

 

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