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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
		* faculty member is currently not taking students


	Emeritus Faculty

	* Kimmich GA	Regulation of neurotransmitter uptake by glial and neuronal cells.
	* Lawrence CW	Molecular biology of DNA-damage induced mutagenesis.
	* Miller LL	Hormonal regulation of plasma protein synthesis in isolated perfused liver.
	* Senior AE	Multidrug-resistance in cancer; ATP synthesis in bacteria and mitochondria.
	* 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.
	Culver GM	Assembly of the E. coli 30S ribosomal subunit.
	Goldfarb DS	We are interested in the molecular mechanisms that control the exchange of molecules and information between the nucleus and cytoplasm.
	* 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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