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Associate Professor and Department Chair

Ran
Drori

Associate Professor and Department Chair

rdrori@yu.edu
646-592-4821

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #548 

 

 

 

B.Sc., Biotechnology, Tel-Hai College, 2007
M.Sc, Plant Pathology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
Ph.D., Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015

I found the interaction between ice and antifreeze proteins a fascinating subject, and decided to pursue my Ph.D while studying these proteins with at the Hebrew University (Rehovot campus). I started my post-doc at NYU's Chemistry department on October 2014, working with Profs. and on two projects - (1) identifying and (2) studying how does the dynamics.

On August 2017, I joined the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at ³ÉÈËÊÓƵɫÇéƬ as an assistant professor.

Publications at YU (student name is underlined, * - corresponding author):

  1. Zalazar, M., Kalburge, S. J., Zhang Y., Drori, R.*, Inverse Relationship Between Ice Nucleation andIce Growth in Frozen Foods, Food Biophysics, In press. (2024)
  2. Huard, D. J. E., Johnson, A. M., Fan, Z., Kenney, L. G., Xu, M., Drori, R., Gumbart, J. C., Dai, S., Lieberman, R. L., Glass, J. B.*, Molecular basis for destabilization of methane clathrate by a deep subsurface bacterial protein. PNAS Nexus, 2(8), pgad268 (2023).
  3. Drori, R.*, and Stevens, C., Divergent Mechanisms of Ice Growth Inhibition by Antifreeze Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology (book chapter). In-press (2023). 
  4. Drori, R.*, Investigating the interaction between ice-binding proteins and ice surfaces using microfluidic devices and cold stages. Methods in Molecular Biology. (book chapter). In-press (2023).
  5. Thosar, A. U, Shalom, Y., Braslavsky, I., Drori, R.*, Patel, A. J.*, Accumulation of Antifreeze Proteins on Ice is Determined by Adsorption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 32, 17597-17602 (2023).
  6. Zalazar, M., Zypman, F., Drori, R.*, Micro-thermography for imaging ice crystal growth and nucleation inside non-transparent materials. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94 (5): 054903 (2023).
  7. Drori, R.*, Shalom, Y., A Microfluidic Approach for the Study of Ice and Clathrate Hydrates Crystallization. The Journal of Visualized Experiments (186), e64072 (2022).
  8. Soussana, T. N, Weissman, H., Rybtchinski, B., Drori, R.*, Adsorption-Inhibition of Clathrate Hydrates by Self-Assembled Nanostructures. ChemPhysChem, 22, 2182 (2021).
  9. Deng, J., Apfelbaum, E., Drori, R.*, Ice Growth Acceleration by Antifreeze Proteins Leads to Higher Thermal Hysteresis Activity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124, 49, 11081–11088 (2020).
  10. Shtukenberg, A.G.*, Drori R.*, Kahr. B.*, et al. (rank 2nd out of 14), Crystals of benzamide, the first polymorphous molecular compound, are helicoidal. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 14593 (2020).
  11. Berger T., Meister K., DeVries A. L., Eves R., Davies P. L., Drori R.*, Synergy Between Antifreeze Proteins is Driven by Complementary Ice-Binding. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 48, 19144–19150 (2019).
  12. Meister K., DeVries A. L., Bakker H. J., Drori R.*, Antifreeze Glycoproteins Bind Irreversibly to Ice. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (30), 9365-9368 (2018).
  13. Drori R.*, Holmes-Cerfon M.*, Kahr B., Kohn R. V., Ward M. D.* Dynamics and Unsteady Morphologies at Ice Interfaces Driven by D2O-H2O Exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,114 (44) 11627-11632 (2017).

Selected publications before joining YU:

1. Drori R.*, Li C., Hu C., Raiteri P., Rohl A., Ward M. D., Kahr B.* A Supramolecular Ice Growth Inhibitor. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138 (40), 13396–13401 (2016).

2. Drori R., Davies P. L., Braslavsky I.* When are Antifreeze Proteins in Solution Essential for Ice Growth Inhibition? Langmuir, 31 (21) 5805–5811 (2015).

3. Drori R., Davies P. L., Braslavsky I.* Experimental Correlation between Thermal Hysteresis Activity and the Distance between Antifreeze Proteins on an Ice Surface. Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 5, 7848-7853 (2015).

 

rdrori@yu.edu
646-592-4821

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #548 

 

 

 

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Spring 2021
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Lecture
CHEM 1377

Organic Chem Lecture
CHEM 1214R

Spring 2020
Biochemistry Lecture
BIOL/CHEM 1376

Independent Study
CHEM 4901

Organic Chem Lecture
CHEM 1214R

Fall 2019
Biochemistry Lecture
BIOL 1376H

Biochemistry Lecture
CHEM 1376H

Organic Chem Lecture
CHEM 1213R

Spring 2019
Biochemistry Lecture
BIOL/CHEM 1376

Independent Study
CHEM 4901

Organic Chem Lecture
CHEM 1214R

Fall 2018
Biochemistry Lecture
BIOL 1376H

Biochemistry Lecture
CHEM 1376H

Organic Chem Lecture
CHEM 1213R