Samara Reck-Peterson

@SamReckPeterson

Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine and mechanistic cell biologist studying intracellular transport and Parkinson's Disease

New York, NY reckpetersonlab.org Joined January 2011

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Samara Reck-Peterson @SamReckPeterson Jan 31, 2025

I am excited for this opportunity to chair the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/01/d…

news.weill.cornell.edu Dr. Samara Reck-Peterson Named Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill... The newly configured department marshals biochemists, biophysicists and experts in protein engineering and imaging to drive discoveries in the basic mechanisms of cell function.

Samara Reck-Peterson @SamReckPeterson Jan 20, 2025

The deadline to attend the “Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience” EMBO meeting is Feb 1st! We are bringing together scientists, funders, and policy makers. Join us for this exciting meeting: meetings.embo.org/event/25-clima…

meetings.embo.org Integrating cell and planetary scales to address climate resilience The climate crisis is a multiscale problem that requires transdisciplinary expertise for understanding and engineering climate resilience. Cells are the first responders of the biosphere and yet cell…

Samara Reck-Peterson @SamReckPeterson Sep 23, 2024

Excited to share our new preprint presenting the first LRRK2-selective type-II kinase inhibitors, developed and characterized in collaboration with our @ASAP_research team biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Samara Reck-Peterson @SamReckPeterson Oct 27, 2023

The Reck-Peterson lab at UC San Diego and HHMI is looking for two research technicians with expertise in biochemistry or fungal biology. We provide an excellent environment for post-baccalaureate studies. Come join us! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…; hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Samara Reck-Peterson @SamReckPeterson Oct 27, 2023

The Reck-Peterson lab at UC San Diego and HHMI is looking for a senior scientist to join our team working on the role of organelle trafficking in secondary metabolite production in filamentous fungi. Come join us! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…