Other Faculty Profiles

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in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics 
participate in 2 graduate degree programs:



 
           
 

Biophysics PhD Students require two of these faculty on their thesis advisory committee

 
  Bernhard WA

Physics & chemistry of DNA damage produced by ionizing radiation.

 
  Dumont ME

Signal transduction; membrane protein structure, yeast molecular biology.

 
  Goldstein BM

Crystallography and structural chemistry of enzyme-ligand interactions.

 
  Gunter TE

Membrane transport, bioenergetics, calcium regulation.

 
  Hayes JJ

DNA structure; chromatin; protein-DNA interactions.

 
  Hilf R

Hormone action in mammory cancer; Photodynamic therapy of neoplasia.

 
  Maquat LE

RNA metabolism in mammalian cells; Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (mRNA surveillance); Influence of pre-mRNA splicing on mRNA translation.

 
  Mathews DH

Computational biology of RNA.

 
  Phizicky EM

Functional genomics, tRNA processing and splicing in yeast and vertebrates.

 
  Wedekind JE

Crystallographic analysis of small ribozymes & RNA editing proteins.

 
         
     
 

Biochemistry PhD Students require two of these faculty on their thesis advisory committee

 
  Bambara RA

DNA replication and expression.

 
  Bernhard WA

Physics & chemistry of DNA damage produced by ionizing radiation.

 
  Bulger M

Chromatin domains and long-range activation by enhancers.

 
  Dumont ME

Signal transduction; membrane protein structure, yeast molecular biology.

 
  Fay PJ

Human factor VIII structure and function; enzyme-cofactor interactions.

 
  Goldstein BM

Crystallography and structural chemistry of enzyme-ligand interactions.

 
  Gunter TE

Membrane transport, bioenergetics, calcium regulation.

 
  Hagen FK

Glycobiology-O-Glycosylation, role of O-linked glycoproteins in development.

 
  Hayes JJ

DNA structure; chromatin; protein-DNA interactions.

 
  Hilf R

Hormone action in mammory cancer; Photodynamic therapy of neoplasia.

 
  Maines MD

Heme oxygenases and second messenger gases: CO and NO.

 
  Maquat LE

RNA metabolism in mammalian cells; Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (mRNA surveillance); Influence of pre-mRNA splicing on mRNA translation.

 
  Mathews DH

Computational biology of RNA.

 
  Pearce DA

Yeast and mouse models for the study of human disease.

 
  Phizicky EM

Functional genomics, tRNA processing and splicing in yeast and vertebrates.

 
  Sherman F

Yeast molecular biology and genetics; gene expression; cytochrome c biosynthesis and degradation.

 
  Smith HC

The role of mRNA editing in health and disease.

 
  Wedekind JE

Crystallographic analysis of small ribozymes & RNA editing proteins.

 
  Yu YT

RNA modification, pre-mRNA splicing, snPNP biogenesis.

 
       
   



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