Scott Erdman is an associate professor in Department of Biology of Syracuse University, New York United States. He specializes in determinining the molecular mechanisms that enable cells to dynamically alter their shape and surface adhesion properties in response to specific developmental or environmental cues.

Changes in cell shape and adhesion are two fundamental hallmarks of the differentiation of eucaryotic cells, Analyses of a novel paxillin homolog and Rho GTPase signaling modulator, Pxl1p, Functional genomics of fungal control of lipid and membrane homeostasis.