DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND
BIOCHEMISTRY
Natalie Ahn, Ph.D. Signal transduction and protein phosphorylation; functional
proteomics and mass spectrometry.
Robert Batey, Ph.D. X-ray crystallography of
ribonucleoprotein enzymes and complexes.
Thomas Cech, Ph.D. RNA catalysis and splicing; RNA
structure including X-ray crystallography; chromosome telomeres and telomerase.
Joseph Falke, Ph.D. Molecular studies of receptors,
kinases and signaling proteins, structural and mechanistic studies of receptors
and membrane-associated signaling proteins.
Ray Fall, Ph.D. Environmental biochemistry,
mechanisms plants and microorganisms use to produce volatile organic compounds
James Goodrich, Ph.D. Eukaryotic transcriptional
regulation, regulatory RNAs, gene expression in T cells, enzymology
Rob Knight, Ph.D. Bioinformatics, RNA evolution,
evolution of pathogenicity islands, nucleotide substitution patterns,
biological networks
Tad Koch, Ph.D. Design, synthesis, and evaluation of
drugs targeted to breast and prostate cancer, especially metastatic resistant
cancer.
Robert Kuchta, Ph.D. Enzyme mechanisms and inhibition in
DNA replication.
Xuedong Liu, Ph.D. TGF beta signal transduction
mechanisms in normal and cancer cells; ubiquitin mediated proteolysis and cell
cycle control.
Amy Palmer, Ph.D. Chemical biology, biosensor design,
imaging of signal transduction pathways.
Arthur Pardi, Ph.D. RNA structure and function; catalytic
RNA; protein-RNA recognition; NMR and single molecule structure methodology.
Marcelo Sousa, Ph.D. Structural biology of macromolecular
complexes.
Dylan Taatjes, Ph.D. Study of large complexes that
regulate gene expression; electron microscropy.
Deborah Wuttke, Ph.D. Structural biology and biochemistry
of telomeres, picornavirus, and the estrogen receptor.
Hubert Yin, Ph.D. Drug Discovery, identifying potential
therapeutics that inhibit opioids-induced glial cell activation, protein
engineering for targeting membrane receptors.
DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR, CELLULAR,
AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Corrella Detweiler, Ph.D. How pathogenic bacteria evade and
manipulate mammalian immune systems. Molecular mechanisms of Typhoid fever.
Joaquin Espinosa, Ph.D. Mechanisms of transcriptional
regulation by the tumor suppressor p53.
Min Han, Ph.D. Molecular genetics of differentiation
and migration during nematode development.
Michael
Klymkowsky, Ph.D. Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal organization and gene
expression.
Leslie Leinwand, Ph.D. Genetic manipulation of cardiac and
skeletal muscle development and function in mice; gene therapy; cardiac genetic
disease.
Jennifer Martin, Ph.D. Tumor virology; human B-cell
immortalization by Epstein-Barr virus.
Greg Odorizzi, Ph.D. Genetics and cell biology; membrane
trafficking and phosphoinositide signaling in eukaryotic cells.
Bradley Olwin, Ph.D. Signalling in skeletal muscle
development and regeneration; isolation and characterization of muscle stem
cells.
Norman Pace, Ph.D. Ribozyme biochemistry; molecular
ecology of microbial ecosystems.
Jingshi
Shen, Ph.D. Signal transduction across membranes; Auto-feedback cellular
homeostasis systems.
Ravinder Singh, Ph.D. RNA-protein interactions,
bioinformatics and molecular-genetic analysis of splicing regulation and sex
determination.
Michael Stowell, Ph.D. Structure and mechanism at the
chemical synapse; ion channels; endocytosis, synaptic architecture and
plasticity.
Tin Tin Su, Ph.D. DNA damage responses in Drosophila.
Gia Voeltz, Ph.D. Organelle biogenesis: the regulation
of organelle structure and shape by membrane proteins.
Mark Winey, Ph.D. Centrosome duplication in yeast and
vertebrate cells, and basal body duplication in Tetrahymena.
Ding Xue, Ph.D. Mechanisms of programmed cell dealth
in the nematode C. elegans and in mammals.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND
BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
Kristi Anseth,
Ph.D.
Biomaterials, photopolymerization, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
Melissa
Mahoney, Ph.D. Novel drug delivery and tissue engineering strategies to
promote regeneration in the central nervous system.
Meredith Betterton, Ph.D. Mathematical modeling of complex biological systems.
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