Dr. Ben Boivin
Associate Professor of Nanobioscience
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
bboivin@sunypoly.edu
Office: 518-956-7412
Lab: 518-956-7070
Ben Boivin received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry from the University of Montreal. After completing his Ph.D at the Montreal Heart institute working on nuclear G-protein coupled receptors in the heart, Dr. Boivin joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2006 for his postdoctoral training on the redox-regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTP). The current focus of his lab is to understand how cells respond to their environment by studying how oxidation of PTPs regulates phosphorylation events and how PTPs become inactivated by cellular oxidants and re-activated by small molecules. His research has been acknowledged by several fellowships, scholarships and awards, including the Heart and Stroke Foundation “Jacques-De-Champlain Outstanding Young Investigator Award”. Since moving to Albany in 2016, his laboratory has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Avinash Londhe
Graduate Student
(Fall 2016 ~)
alondhe@sunypoly.edu
Avinash Londhe received his B.Sc degree in microbiology and a M.Sc in virology from the University of Pune (india). He then obtained a M.Sc. in molecular biomedicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is currently pursing the Ph.D. degree in Nanobioscience from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, under the guidance of Dr. Ben Boivin. He has a research background in protein biochemistry, virology and immunology. During his time here, he has designed spearheaded a research project on the mechanisms by which reactive oxygen species oxidize a protein tyrosine phosphatase called PTP1B in cellular signaling. Avinash’ findings on a complex stabilizes the oxidized form of PTP1B was recently published in Nature Chemical Biology. His current focus is to understand how other proteins from this complex are regulating the oxidation of PTP1B.
Sudheer Sagabala
Graduate Student
(Fall 2016 ~)
rsagabala@sunypoly.edu
Sudheer Sagabala received his B.Sc degree in Biotechnology and a M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Sri Venkateswara University (India). He joined the lab after working on oxidative stress in cardiac myocytes in at the Gwangju Institute off Science and Technology (GIST, Korea) for 2 years. Sudheer joined the Boivin lab at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in 2016 to pursue a Ph.D. in Nanobioscience working on the regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatases by sterols. He is currently involved in…
- Development of methods to measure the activation of PTPs
- Development and investigations of the function of PTP1B and sterols in insulin resistance.
William Mudd
Graduate Student
(Fall 2020 ~)
wmudd@sunypoly.edu
William Mudd received his B.S. degree in Biology at U. Albany in 2020 before pursing his Ph.D. in Nanobioscience at SUNY Poly’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. He joined the Boivin lab in 2020 and he has been the recipient of a Doctoral RNA Training Fellowship since 2021. His interests are to understand whether electron tunneling is occurring in protein tyrosine phosphatases and to develop methods to determine electron paths and to measure electron tunneling in proteins. Ultimately, his goal is to develop small molecules -- such as RNA aptamers -- to allow electron donors to activate protein tyrosine phosphatases in vivo.
