 | Mario Amzel
Professor and Director, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Structure and mechanism of proteins involved in redox or phosphoryl transfer reactions, such as FPPS, MICAL, and Pl3K-alpha. Many of these proteins studied are targets for drug design. |
 | Scott Bailey
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Structure/function studies of genome integrity
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 | Doug Barrick
Professor, Biophysics
Stability and folding of modular proteins, structure and sequence analysis of protein evolution, protein-protein interactions in signaling pathways |
 | James Berger - starting summer 2013
Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Structural and mechanistic biochemistry of protein/nucleic acid machines and assemblies
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 | Jürgen Bosch
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Structural biology of macromolecular complexes critical for malaria pathogenicity, structure-based drug design
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 | Greg Bowman
Assistant Professor, Biophysics
Structural biology of molecular machines involved in nucleosome remodeling |
 | Greg Chirikjian
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Computational mechanics of large proteins, conformational statistics of biological macromolecules, applied mathematics |
 | Phil Cole
Professor, Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Chemical and biochemical approaches to signal transduction |
 | Richard Cone
Professor, Biophysics
Mucosal protection by bacteria
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 | David Draper
Professor, Chemistry
RNA folding problems: how solution factors determine the structure and stability of functional RNA structures
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 | Karen Fleming
Associate Professor, Biophysics
Membrane protein folding, thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions in membranes, protein engineering, membrane protein modeling |
 | Dominique Frueh
Assistant Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
NMR studies of the modulations of protein dynamics and conformations in active enzymatic systems
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 | Bertrand García-Moreno
Professor and Chair, Biophysics
Experimental and computational studies of protein electrostatics, structure-based energy calculations, ligand-driven conformational transition, bioenergetics
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 | Jeffrey Gray
Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biomolecular modeling, protein-protein docking, protein-surface interactions, allostery, biomineralization
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 | Rachel Green
Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Molecular mechanisms of translation and its regulation |
 | Marc Greenberg
Professor, Chemistry
Studies on DNA damage and repair, and their applications |
 | Vincent J. Hilser
Professor, Biology
Conformational fluctuations in function, disease and evolution |
 | Jan Hoh
Associate Professor, Physiology
Biophysical interactions between biological macromolecules and macromolecular complexes, development of new technology and biomedical applications for scanned probe microscopes |
 | Kalina Hristova
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Cell membrane biophysics, signal transduction, receptor tyrosine kinases, molecular basis of disease, protein-lipid interactions, membrane protein folding, supported bilayers
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 | Margaret Johnson
Assistant Professor, Biophysics
Theoretical and computational modeling of protein interactions at the cellular scale |
 | Albert Lau
Assistant Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Characterization of biomolecular association and conformational transitions using computational and crystallographic approaches |
 | Dan Leahy
Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Structural and biophysical characterization of signaling pathways |
 | Juliette Lecomte
Professor & Program Director, Biophysics
Structure and dynamics of proteins in solution by NMR spectroscopy |
 | Jon Lorsch
Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Molecular mechanics of eukaryotic translation |
 | Roger McMacken
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Function of multiprotein assemblies, initiation mechanisms for DNA replication, mechanisms of molecular chaperone action |
 | Paul Miller
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nucleic acid chemistry and DNA repair
|
 | Evangelos Moudrianakis
Professor, Biology
Chromatin structure and function |
 | Marc Ostermeier
Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biomolecular engineering
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 | Peter Pedersen
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Cell energetics and its relationship to the diseases cancer and cystic fibrosis |
 | Sean Prigge
Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Crystallography of malaria proteins |
 | Elijah Roberts
Assistant Professor, Biophysics
Investigating the creation and use of in silico cell models |
 | George Rose
Professor, Biophysics
Theoretical approaches to protein and RNA folding
(no longer accepting students) |
 | Justine Roth
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Metalloenzyme catalysis, mechanistic studies of oxidative protein modifiction and damage by reactive oxygen species |
 | Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri
Associate Professor, Pathology
Mechanisms of T cell activation and unresponsiveness, mechanisms of antigen processing and presentation |
 | Joel Schildbach
Professor, Biology
Structural, biochemical, and functional studies of proteins involved in DNA transfer by bacterial conjugation |
 | Robert Schleif
Professor, Biology
Mechanism of protein function, particularly regulatory proteins, using genetic, biochemical, biophysical, and computational methods |
 | David Shortle
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Protein folding and stability, NMR analysis of denatured protein, prediction of protein structure from sequence |
 | Jungsan Sohn
Assistant Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Structure and function of biological stress-sensors
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 | Jim Stivers
Professor, Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Enzymology of DNA repair and topoisomerases, structure and mechanism by NMR spectroscopy, inhibitor design |
 | Joel Tolman
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Experimental and theoretical NMR, protein structure and function, polyubiquitylation |
 | Craig Townsend
Professor, Chemistry
Natural product chemistry, enzymology and molecular biology, fatty acid synthase inhibitors for cancer, tuberculosis and obesity |
 | Herschel Wade
Assistant Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of ligand-dependent transcriptional activation-repression, broadly-specific receptor-ligand systems |
 | Cynthia Wolberger
Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Structural and mechanistic studies of transcription regulation and ubiquitin signaling
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 | Sarah Woodson
Professor, Biophysics
Folding and dynamics of RNA and RNA-protein complexes |
 | Tom Woolf
Professor, Physiology
Computational biophysics of membrane systems, membrane proteins, and protein:lipid interactions; development of new methods for relative free energy and conformational transitions, computational analysis of ligand binding |
 | Jie Xiao
Assistant Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of transcription regulation and cell division in bacterial cells |
 | Jin Zhang
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
Spatiotemporal regulation of signal transduction
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