Primary Faculty


Graduate Studies		Research Areas


	Primary Faculty

	Bambara RA	Human genome stability, DNA damage response, HIV replication and evolution.
	Bernhard WA	Physics & chemistry of DNA damage produced by ionizing radiation.
	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.
	Grayhack EJ	Gene regulation in yeast; Cell cycle control of transcription; Protein phosphorylation and multivalent regulation; Growth control.
	Grossfield A	Investigating membranes and membrane proteins via computer simulation.
	Gunter TE	Membrane transport, bioenergetics, calcium regulation.
	Hagen FK	Glycosyltransferases, proteomics, role of glycosylation in development.
	Hayes JJ	DNA structure; chromatin; protein-DNA interactions.
	* Hilf R	Hormone action in mammory cancer; Photodynamic therapy of neoplasia.
	Kielkopf CL	Structural and Biophysical Basis of Normal and Disease-Associated pre-mRNA Recognition.
	* Kimmich GA	Regulation of neurotransmitter uptake by glial and neuronal cells.
	* Lawrence CW	Molecular biology of DNA-damage induced mutagenesis.
	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.
	* Miller LL	Hormonal regulation of plasma protein synthesis in isolated perfused liver.
	Munger J	Viral mechanisms of metabolic network manipulation.
	Pearce DA	Yeast and mouse models for the study of human disease.
	Phizicky EM	Functional genomics, tRNA processing and splicing in yeast and vertebrates.
	* Senior AE	Multidrug-resistance in cancer; ATP synthesis in bacteria and mitochondria.
	Sherman F	Yeast molecular biology and genetics; Gene expression; Cytochrome c biosynthesis and degradation.
	* Simon W	Optical pattern recognition of biological specimens.
	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.
	* Zain SB	Eukaryotic gene expression with specific reference to disease models.
		* faculty member is currently not taking students


	Secondary Faculty

	* Bayer RM	Hereditary hemochromatosis.
	Bulger M	Chromatin domains and long-range activation by enhancers.
	Butler JS	Post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA expression in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells.
	* Keng PC	Effects of radiation and chemotherapeutic agents on DNA repair and cell cycle regulation. Biochemical and biophysical studies of human leukemic leukocytes.
	Land H	Molecular basis of multi-step carcinogenesis.
	Miller BL	Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing.
	* O'Keefe R	Growth plate chondrocyte differentiation and maturation; biochemical mechanisms of prosthetic implant loosening; mechanisms of tumor mediated bone loss.
	* Platt T	Molecular mechanisms of gene expression; transcription termination and mRNA 3' end formation in E. coli and yeast; protein-nucleic acid interactions.
	* Puzas JE	Molecular and cellular biology of the skeletal system.
	* Smrcka A	Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction.
	Waugh RE	Mechanical aspects of cell function.
	* Young DA	Actions of hormones, growth factors and oncogenes on cell gene expression.
		* faculty member is currently not taking students


	Research Faculty
	Muyan M	Molecular mechanism of estrogen signaling.
		The above research faculty members are currently taking students
	* Bedi GS	Structure-function and tissue-specific expression of salivary proteins and glycoproteins.
	* Gibbs PE
	* Gunter KK	Role of mitochondria in calcium homeostasis, apoptosis and metabolic control.
	* Kennedy SD	Tumor biology: blood flow, metabolism, O2 Tumor response to therapy Stroke imaging (MR).
	* Kovacs A
	* Marmarosh N
	* Mercer KR	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (epr) research and instrumentation.
	* Miralem T
	* Polevoda BV	Protein N-terminal modifications and Protein methylation.
	* Rustchenko- Bulgac E	Chromosomes instability of human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Survival due to specific chromosome rearrangements.
	* Sullivan MA	Phage antibody technology in the development of novel reagents for characterization of protein expression and structures.
	* Swarts SG
	* Wakabayashi H
	* Zhao X
		* Research faculty member is currently not taking students

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