MMRC Labs

Directory of MMRC Members

Jeevisha Bajaj, PhD
email: Jeevisha_Bajaj@URMC.Rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/bajaj

Paul Brookes, PhD
email: paul_brookes@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.psblab.org
Research Interest: The Brookes lab has a broad interest in cardiac metabolism, with a focus on cardiac ischemia (heart attack). The lab has an LC-MS based metabolomics platform, and specializes in 13C metabolic flux tracing.  Processing and analysis of large metabolomics data sets is also a specialty. In addition, the lab has expertise in Seahorse XF assays, mitochondrial enzyme assays, protein post-translational modifications, and mitochondrial proteomics.

Yumei Feng Earley, MD, PhD
email: yumei_earley@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/eliseev.aspx

Roman Eliseev, MD, PhD
email: roman_eliseev@URMC.Rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/feng-earley
Research Interests: Our research focuses on central mechanisms regulating blood pressure and metabolic function, with particular emphasis on the brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS), neural circuitry, neuroinflammation, and glial-neuronal interactions.

Laurent G. Glance, MD
email: laurent_glance@urmc.rochester.edu

Jennetta Hammond, PhD
email: Jennetta_Hammond@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/112361543-jennetta-w-hammond        

Isaac Harris, PhD
Email: Isaac_harris@urmc.rochester.edu
Lab: www.harrislab.org

Krystel Huxlin, PhD
email: Krystel_Huxlin@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/eye-institute/research/labs/huxlin.aspx

Gail Johnson, PhD
email: gail_johnson@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/gail-johnson.aspx

Samuel Mackenzie, MD, PhD
email: Samuel_Mackenzie@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/112362755-samuel-j-mackenzie

Ying Meng, PhD, RN, ACNP
email: Ying_Meng@URMC.Rochester.edu
lab: https://son.rochester.edu/directory/yingmeng/
Research Interests: The Meng lab focuses on eating behaviors, nutrition, and obesity, with an emphasis on prenatal and early-life risk factors for childhood obesity and obesogenic eating behaviors. The lab has extensive experience in dietary assessments and nutritional research. Current research includes assessing metabolomic signatures to examine the links between dietary intake and cardiometabolic disease risk. The Meng lab operates a BSL2 lab at the School of Nursing and provides the following biospecimen analyses: dried blood spots; hair and nail cortisol and DHEA; and standardized ELISA assays of clinical specimens.

Joshua Munger, PhD
email: Joshua_Munger@URMC.Rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/munger  

Keith Nehrke, PhD
email: keith_nehrke@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: http://www.nehrkelab.com/  

John Onukwufor, PhD
email: John_Onukwufor@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/wojtovich.aspx

George Porter, MD, PhD
email: george_porter@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pediatrics/cardiology/research.aspx
Research Interests: The Porter lab studies bioenergetics and mitochondrial biology in the context of cardiac development. We concentrate on regulation of the TCA cycle, electron transport chain, and permeability transition pore to control cardiac myocyte differentiation from the embryo to the mature mammal. 
Key words: Cyclophilin D, native gel electrophoresis, metabolomics

Matthew Rand, PhD
email: Matthew_Rand@URMC.Rochester.edu
Lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/rand

Marlies Rossmann, MD, PhD
email: marlies_rossmann@urmc.rochester.edu
Lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/rossmann-lab.aspx

Michael J. Scott, MBChB
email: michael_scott1@urmc.rochester.edu

Elaine Sia, PhD
email: elaine.sia@rochester.edu
Lab: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/bio/people/faculty/sia_elaine/index.html

Jack Werren, PhD
email: jack.werren@rochester.edu
lab: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/bio/labs/WerrenLab/Werren_Lab_Home.html

Andrew Wojtovich, PhD
email: Andrew_wojtovich@urmc.rochester.edu
lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/wojtovich.aspx
Research Interests: Mitochondrial energetics and ROS signaling in the context of neuronal hypoxia.
Key words: bioenergetics, ROS, hypoxia, optogenetics

Peng Yao, PhD
Email:Peng_Yao@urmc.rochester.edu
Lab: https://sites.google.com/site/yaolabrhr/home

Adnin Zaman, MD
Email:Adnin_Zaman@URMC.Rochester.edu
Lab: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/112363479-adnin-zaman
Research Interest: Dr. Adnin Zaman’s research focuses on the intersection of reproductive hormones and energy metabolism in women, with particular emphasis on how hormonal contraceptives influence weight regulation, energy balance, and metabolic health. She uses clinical studies, epidemiologic datasets, and patient-centered measures to examine variability in metabolic responses. Her work is especially interested in how hormonal exposures may alter underlying metabolic pathways that contribute to differential weight and cardiometabolic outcomes. Clinically, she cares for patients with obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome, and diabetes, which directly informs the translational focus of her research.