Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2017-18 General Catalog
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
James Ackman, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Brain circuit structure and function
Roger W. Anderson, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Manuel Ares Jr., Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Regulation of RNA processing, structure, function, and evolution of RNA-based systems
Alexander Ayzner, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Experimental physical chemistry; organic semiconductors; molecular spectroscopy; electron transfer dynamics; X-ray scattering and spectroscopy
Ilan Benjamin, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and at interfaces
Claude F. Bernasconi, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Needhi Bhalla, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Meiotic chromosome dynamics
Hinrich Boeger, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Chromatin dynamics and transcriptional regulation
Roberto A. Bogomolni, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rebecca Braslau, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthetic organic chemistry: new synthetic methodologies using free radicals; nitroxides, nitroxide mediated "living" polymerizations: design and functionalization of tailored polymers for biomedical applications and nanotechnology, profluorescent nitroxides as sensors, synthetically modified polymers, development of non-migratory plasticizers
Susan Carpenter, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Long noncoding RNA and innate immunity
Bin Chen, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Mammalian brain development
Shaowei Chen, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel functional nanomaterials (metals and semiconductors); surface engineering of nanoparticles; nanoscale electron transfer; applications in fuel cells, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and nano optoelectronics.
Philip O. Crews, Research Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ólöf Einarsdóttir, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Time-resolved spectroscopy; biophysics and bioenergetics; heme-copper oxidases; electron transfer and ligand binding; application of photolabile NO and 02 donors; molecular dynamics simulations of ligand access channels in heme-copper oxidases
David Feldheim, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Developmental neuroscience
Grant Hartzog, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
Lindsay Hinck, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Cellular interactions during organogenesis and tumorigenesis
Theodore R. Holman, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry; lipoxygenase enzymology, protein engineering, inhibitor discovery, computer inhibitor design, mass spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance
Melissa Jurica, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Structure and function of human splicing machinery
Rohinton T. Kamakaka, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Nuclear organization, Chromatin domains, Epigenetic gene regulation and Insulators
Douglas R. Kellogg, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Control of cell growth and size
David S. Kliger, Research Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Time-resolved laser spectroscopy, biophysics, studies of visual transduction, protein function, and protein folding
Joseph P. Konopelski, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthetic organic chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry
Jeremy Lee, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Molecular biology education and curriculum development; Drosphila models of neurodegeneration
Yat Li, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Experimental physical chemistry, materials chemistry, nanomaterials, nanoscale photonics and electronics, energy conversion
R.Scott Lokey, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology
John MacMillan, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Natural products chemistry, chemical biology, structural elucidation, cancer biology, microbial natural products
Pradip Mascharak, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry, design of antitumor drugs, modeling of active sites of metalloenzymes, design of catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation, studies on intermediates in non-heme oxygenase chemistry, design of NO-donors for photodynamic therapy
Glenn L. Millhauser, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Electron paramagnetic resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, protein structure and function, peptide synthesis, prions, melanocortin signaling
Harry F. Noller, Research Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Ribosome structure and function; mechanisms of protein synthesis
Scott R. Oliver, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Materials chemistry: nanoporous inorganic and metal-organic materials for environmental cleanup of water, desulfurization of fueld and biomaterials
Carrie Partch, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biochemistry and biophysics, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; molecular mechanism of circadian rhythmicity
Yuan Ping, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Theoretical and computational materials chemistry; solar energy conversion; electronic, optical and carrier transport properties of transition metal oxides and nanomaterials; heterogeneous catalysts; solid/liquid interfaces
Jevgenij Raskatov, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemical biology, organic chemistry, molecular modeling, chemotherapy, inflammation
Michael Rexach, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex, nuclear transport
Seth M. Rubin, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance
Jeremy Sanford, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Genomic analysis of protein-RNA interactions
William M. Saxton, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Cytoskeletal motors and active transport processes
Thomas W. Schleich, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William G. Scott, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes, origin of life
Nikolaos Sgourakis, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Modeling protein complexes from sparse NMR data; hybrid methods in structural biology; antigen processing and presentation; viral immune regulation mechanisms
Bakthan Singaram, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Organic synthesis, organoborane chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, biosensors, and natural products chemistry
Michael Stone, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Molecular basis of telomere length and telomerase-related diseases; biophysical characterization of nucleic acid-associated molecular motors; development of novel approaches for imaging enzymes in cells
Susan Strome, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Epigenetic regulation of germ cells in C. elegans
William T. Sullivan, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and host-pathogen interactions
Eugene Switkes, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
John W. Tamkun, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
Zhu Wang, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Prostate development and cancer, tissue stem cell
Jordan Ward, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Probing C. elegans development, cellular differentiation, and parasitic disease
W. Todd Wipke, Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Alan M. Zahler, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and small RNA function
Jin Z. Zhang, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductors, metals, and metal oxides; ultrafast dynamics and laser spectroscopy; cancer diagnosis and therapy; solar energy conversion; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
Martha C. Zúñiga, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Negative selection of autoreactive T cells in the thymus and in peripheral lymphoid organs, immunological tolerance to epithelial antigens, MHC transfer between keratinocytes and dendritic cells
Yi Zuo , Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Synaptic plasticity in learning and memory
Revised: 09/01/17
