Assistant Professor
Shyam S. Krishnakumar, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurology & Nanobiology Institute. Dr. Krishnakumar received his M.S in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Structural Biology from Stony Brook University, NY. In his doctoral research, he made several key discoveries describing how the structure and function of transmembrane proteins are defined by the composition of the membrane-spanning domains. Dr. Krishnakumar did his postdoctoral research on the molecular regulation of synaptic vesicle fusion under the guidance of James E. Rothman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2013) in the Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine (Krishnakumar et al. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2011; eLife 2015). Subsequently, as a Senior Research Scientist, he directed research focused on...