Lab Members
David Eliezer
Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience
David received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1987 and 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics/Biophysics at Stanford University in 1994 and continued his work as a postdoctoral associate at Scripps Research Institute in the lab of Peter Wright where he focused on NMR spectroscopy and molecular biology. He joined the department of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell in 1999.
Contact: dae2005@med.cornell.edu
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Guohua Lv
Research Associate
Guohua received her Ph.D. at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (now the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences) in 2013 and joined the Eliezer Lab in October of 2013. She then joined Jinan University of China as an Associate Professor in February 2019, and re-joined the Eliezer Lab in October of 2022.
Contact: gul2009@med.cornell.edu
Sonika Bhatnagar
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sonika received her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India in 2023. She then joined the Eliezer Lab and the Dittman Lab in August 2023 and is interested in understanding the structural and functional roles of SNARE proteins in SNARE complex assembly.
Contact: sbh4003@med.cornell.edu
Ming-Hao Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ming-Hao received his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in 2022, in the lab of Dan Raleigh on amyloid fibrils and peptide membrane interaction. He joined the Eliezer Lab in August 2023.
Contact: mil4021@med.cornell.edu
Rahamtullah
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rahamtullah received his B.Sc. in Biotechnology with distinction from Patna University. In 2014, he attended the School of Biotechnology at Jawaharlal Nehru University to pursue an M.Sc. in Biotechnology. His master's dissertation focused on the Characterization of the microbial Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase and its Optogenetics applications.
He received his Ph.D. at the School of Biotechnology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2023, where he studied the mechanism of alpha-lactalbumin amyloid formation and its interaction with fatty acids. He then did postdoctoral research at the same university focused on the photo-dynamics of flavin-containing proteins, particularly BLUF domain-containing proteins. In 2024, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center where he researched understanding the molecular and mechanistic signaling pathways involved in NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated cell death.
He joined Eliezer's lab in January 2025. He seeks to comprehend the mechanism of alpha-synuclein aggregation and its interaction with synaptic vesicle membrane.
Contact: fnr@med.cornell.edu
Dagan Marx
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dagan received a B.S. in both Biochemistry and Environmental Science from the University of Iowa in 2014. As an undergraduate, he worked in the lab of Dr. Madeline Shea studying the regulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by calmodulin. He then completed his Ph.D. under Dr. Karen Fleming at Johns Hopkins University where he studied both how chaperone proteins solubilize unfolded membrane proteins and membrane protein folding and stability. Dagan joined the Eliezer Lab and the Levitz lab in 2021 and is interested in understanding how GPCR function is regulated by macromolecular interactions.
Contact: dcm4002@med.cornell.edu
Chiara Mancinelli
Ph.D. Candidate
Chiara received her B.S. in Chemistry with a Biology concentration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2019 and researched the fabrication and characterization of nano-materials and their various industrial and biomedical applications in the nanobiotechnology subgroup at Linhardt Labs. She joined the Weill Cornell Pharmacology department in 2019 and the Eliezer Lab in Fall 2020.
Contact: cdm4001@med.cornell.edu