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Faculty: Alphabetical Listing

Sarah Ades
Signal Transduction and Antibiotic-Induced Stress Responses in Bacteria
Paul Babitzke
Regulation of gene expression by RNA structure and RNA-binding proteins
J. Martin Bollinger
Mechanisms of metalloenzymes and metallofactor assembly
Squire J. Booker
Mechanisms of cofactor action in enzymatic reactions
Jean E. Brenchley
Isolation of psychrophilic microorganisms and the biochemical characterization of useful cold-active enzymes
Donald A. Bryant
Physiology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics of photosynthetic bacteria
Craig E. Cameron
Genome replication of hepatitis C virus
James G. Ferry
Enzymology and functional genomics
Richard J. Frisque
Molecular approaches to the unique biology of JC virus
David S. Gilmour
Transcriptional regulation of the hsp70 heat shock gene in Drosophila
John H. Golbeck
Structure-function relationships with photosynthetic reaction centers
Wendy Hanna-Rose
Developmental genetics of organogenesis and morphogenesis in Caenorhaditis elegans
Ross C. Hardison
Genomics and Gene Regulation
Mitchell Holland
Forensic Science
Teh-hui Kao
Biochemical and Molecular Bases of Self/Non-Self Recognition During Plant Reproduction
Kenneth Keiler
Small RNAs and Protein Localization in Bacterial Development and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
Emine Koc
Investigation of mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes in translation, apoptosis, and disease states of the mitochondria by using various proteomics techniques
Hasan Koc
Mechanistic Studies of Carcinogenecity induced by electrophilic agents
Kouacou Konan
Hepatitis C and related viruses: understanding the role of intracellular membrane rearrangement in the replication of these viruses
Andrey Krasilnikov
Structural biology of RNA and RNA-protein complexes
Maria Krasilnikova
Mechanisms of trinucleotide repeats diseases
Carsten Krebs
Bioinorganic chemistry - spectroscopic and kinetic studies on the mechanisms of iron-containing enzymes
Zhi-Chun Lai*
Development of the Drosophila eye
Arthur Lesk
Protein Structure, Function and Evolution
Bernhard Lüscher*
Structure, function and post-synaptic targeting of GABAA receptors
 
Andrea M. Mastro
Breast Cancer and the Immune System
Pamela J. Mitchell
Developmental gene regulation in Drosophila and mouse
Katsuhiko Murakami
Structural biology of RNA polymerase
Anton Nekrutenko
Comparative genome analysis
B. Tracy Nixon
Signal transduction in procaryotes: functional domains of Rhizobium dct gene
Ronald D. Porter
Director of Graduate Studies
Kathleen Postle
Signal transduction and iron transport in bacteria
Frank Pugh
Biochemistry and genomics of eukaryotic transcription regulation
Joseph Reese
Chromatin structure and gene expression, DNA damage resistance pathways
Melissa M. Rolls
Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons
Reena Roy
Forensic Science

Lorraine Santy

Small GTPase regulation of epithelial motility
Robert A. Schlegel
Regulation and function of membrane transbilayer phospholipid dynamics in blood cells
Stephan C. Schuster
Genome evolution in host-adapted bacteria
Robert Shaler
Forensic Science
Song Tan
Structural biology of eukaryotic gene regulation
Michael Teng
Pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus infection; virus-host cell interactions
Graham H. Thomas*
Roles of the cytoskeleton in Drosophila development: molecular and genetic approaches
Ming Tien
Mechanism and regulation of fungal degradation of lignin
C.-P. David Tu
Gene regulation, structure and function of glutathione S-transferase systems
Yanming Wang
Epigenetic histone modifications in cell differentiation and cancer

*faculty with joint appointments in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Members of the Graduate Program from other departments:

Avery August
Regulation of nonreceptor serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases
Nina V. Fedoroff
Plant transposable elements, epigenetic mechanisms, plant development
Eric Harvill
Bacterial virulence factors, host immune functions, and molecular cross-talk between pathogen and host
Randen Patterson
Receptor-operated Calcium Signaling Pathways
Robert Paulson
Genetic and biochemical analysis of hematopoiesis
Gary H. Perdew
Molecular mechanism(s) of toxicity; dioxin mediated signal transduction; biochemistry of heat shock protein complexes
Jeffrey M. Peters
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors

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