Biochemistry

Macromolecular Synthesis, Assembly and Localization faculty

• Lesa J. Beamer
  Structural biology: X-ray crystallography of medically important proteins.
• Donald H. Burke
  Ribozyme mechanism and evolution and the origin of life; antiviral nucleic acid aptamers and the molecular basis of drug resistant HIV-1.
• Shi-jie Chen
  Predicting RNA structures and structural changes; Computational studies of RNA thermal stability and folding kinetics.
• William R. Folk
  Gene expression and replication; plant nutritive improvement and medical uses.
• Thomas Guilfoyle
  Transcriptional control by auxins in plants; plant RNA polymerases.
• Mark Hannink
  BTB-Kelch substrate adaptor family in development, oncogenesis and neurodegeneration.
• Gerald Hazelbauer
  Transmembrane receptors and sensory transduction in bacterial chemotaxis.
• Antje Heese
  Membrane trafficking in plant innate immunity.
• Bruce A. McClure
  Cell-cell interactions in pollen recognition and rejection.
• Jan A. Miernyk
  Protein targeting and folding in plants, organelle biogenesis, posttranslational modifications.
• Scott C. Peck
  Proteomics of protein phosphorylation and protein kinases; signaling and secretion during host-pathogen interactions.
• Brenda A. Peculis
  RNA processing, RNA stability, RNA turnover, RNA decapping enzymes, snoRNPs required for ribosome biogenesis.
• Michael J. Petris
  Regulation of metal nutrition and impacts on common human diseases.
• Charlotte L. Phillips
  Collagen in inherited and acquired diseases of bone and kidney; matrix metalloproteinases; medical genetics.
• Linda Randall
  Molecular chaperones in protein export; analysis of protein-protein interactions.
• Krishna K. Sharma
  Structure-function of crystallins, role of ocular proteases and molecular basis for cataract development.
• Chun Tang
  Spatial and temporal characterization of macromolecular dynamics involved in protein complexes and signaling pathways.
• Richard Tsika
  Transcriptional regulation in striated muscle during development, activity, and stress; transgenic mouse models.
• Steven R. Van Doren
  Structural biology: NMR investigations of protein structure, dynamics and protein-protein interactions, particularly proteins important in inflammatory diseases.
• Gary A. Weisman
  Nucleotide receptors and signaling in inflammation, cardiovascular and autoimmune exocrine disease.
• Shuqun Zhang
  MAP kinases and signaling in plant defense responses.
• Xiaoqin Zou
  Protein-ligand interactions, protein-protein interactions, computer-aided drug design and modeling of quantitative structure-function relationships of membrane proteins.