Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
Research Areas
A – C | D – G | H – J | K – M | N – P | R – V | W – Z
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Richard M. Amasino | Regulation of plant development; specifically, floral induction and plant senescence |
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Aseem Z. Ansari | Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry, biology and genomics |
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Alan D. Attie | Molecular genetics of diabetes & insulin resistance; cell biology of lipoprotein assembly, cholesterol trafficking |
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Jon Audhya | Mechanisms of membrane trafficking; regulation of growth factor signaling; live-cell imaging; membrane remodeling during development of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
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Sebastian Y. Bednarek | Plant cell biology; intracellular protein trafficking, membrane biogenesis |
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Paul Bertics | Regulation of cellular growth and differentiation; enzymology of protein kinases; biochemical characterization and interaction of growth factor, growth hormone, and purinergic receptors; endotoxin signaling and macrophage activation |
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David Brow | Nuclear steps in gene expression; transcription by RNA polymerases II and III; RNA dynamics in pre-mRNA splicing |
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Samuel E. Butcher | RNA Structure, Function and Dynamics;NMR Spectroscopy of RNA and Macromolecular Complexes; Biochemistry of RNA catalysis |
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Margaret Clagett-Dame | Molecular mechanism of action of vitamin A in embryonic development, vitamin A and neuronal survival and differentiation, retinoids in chemoprevention and chemotherapy |
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W. Wallace Cleland | Kinetics and mechanisms of enzymes; isotope effects |
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Joshua Coon | Development and application of proteomics-based technologies to monitor protein expression, mRNA editing, and cellular signaling |
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Michael M. Cox | Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair |
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Gheorghe Craciun | Mathematical and computational models of complex biochemical systems |
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Elizabeth A. Craig | Protein folding in the cell — the function of molecular chaperones in facilitating protein folding and protein translocation across membranes |
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Hector F. DeLuca | Molecular function of vitamins and hormones, metabolism of vitamins A and D |
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John Denu | Mechanism and biological function of reversible protein modifications in signal transduction, chromatin dynamics and gene activation |
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Robert Fillingame | Membrane biochemistry; mechanism of H+-transporting, rotary ATP synthase of oxidative phosphorylation |
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Brian G. Fox | Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering |
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Catherine Fox | Replication, structure, and expression of eukaryotic chromosomes; conserved mechanisms linking transcription, cell cycle, and cell differentiation |
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Paul D. Friesen | Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons |
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Colleen E. Hayes | Molecular mechanisms that regulate immune responses |
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Hazel M. Holden | Three-dimensional structures of proteins by x-ray crystallographic analysis |
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Christina Hull | Molecular biology of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans; sexual development; cell identity determination; gene regulation; protein-DNA interactions |
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James Keck | Structure-function studies of DNA replication, recombination, and repair proteins |
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Laura L. Kiessling | Biomolecular recognition processes; the chemistry and biology of protein-saccharide interactions |
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Patricia Kiley | Transcriptional regulation; signal transduction of oxygen deprivation; Fe-S cluster assembly and regulation |
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Judith Kimble | Regulation of development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans |
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Robert Landick | RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans |
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John L. Markley | NMR spectroscopy and its biological applications; structure function relationships in proteins; stable-isotope- assisted multinuclear NMR spectroscopy; processing and analysis of multi-dimensional NMR data |
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Thomas F. J. Martin | Mechanisms of hormone action; signal transduction and second messengers; regulation of hormone and neurotransmitter secretion; inositol phospholipid biochemistry |
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Julie Mitchell | Computational analysis of protein interactions and macromolecular shape features |
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Deane Mosher | Structure and function of extracellular proteins involved in cell migration and differentiation with emphases on thrombosis, hemostasis, and white cell trafficking |
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David L. Nelson | Biochemistry of behavior in Paramecium: Role of Ca2+, cyclic nucleotides, and protein kinases |
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James M. Ntambi | Cellular differentiation and hormonal and dietary regulation of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) genes |
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David J. Pagliarini | Mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism; cell signaling; proteomics |
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Ann C. Palmenberg | Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses; protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis; viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based sequence analysis |
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George N. Phillips, Jr. | Structure and dynamics of proteins, computational biology |
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J. Wesley Pike | Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skeleton |
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Ronald T. Raines | Chemical biology, protein design and engineering, enzymology |
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John Ralph | Plant cell wall structure, biosynthesis and utilization |
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Ivan Rayment | Structure and function of proteins by x-ray diffraction analysis |
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M. Thomas Record, Jr. | Biophysical studies of protein-nucleic acid interactions in transcription initiation in vitro and in E. coli; computational and experimental studies of polyelectrolyte properties of nucleic acids and their complexes |
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George H. Reed | Activation of enzymic reactions by metal ions; biophysical applications of spectroscopy |
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Alessandro Senes | Computational and experimental studies of integral membrane proteins folding and structure |
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Michael Sheets | Regulation of vertebrate development and cell differentiation by molecular signaling pathways |
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Michael R. Sussman email | Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Douglas B. Weibel | Understanding the behavior and physiology of microbes; biological engineering |
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Marvin P. Wickens | Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology |
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Christiane Wiese | Molecular mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly and microtubule nucleation; cell-cycle dependent regulation of spindle assembly proteins; centrosome structure and function |