Primary Job Title Presidential Professor Primary Organization 
Baruch College
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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David Gruber is presidential professor of Biology at Baruch College, City University of New York, and serves on the faculty of the PhD program in Biology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. He is also an Explorer for National Geographic, a research associate in Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural
History and an adjunct faculty member at the John B. Pierce Laboratory of the Yale School of Medicine.
David's interdisciplinary research pertains to marine biology, genomics / transcriptomics of uncharacterized marine organisms, deep-sea biology and technology, photosynthesis, biofluorescence, and bioluminescence. He completed a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine, working to develop fluorescent proteins into modulatable probes with neurobiological and medical applications.
