Research-Active Faculty

Vytas Bankaitis

molecular genetics, cell & developmental biology, neural stem cells, lipid metabolism & signaling, structural biology, neurodegenerative diseases, ...

Mary Bryk

transcriptional regulation, gene expression, chromatin, histone modifications, molecular genetics, biochemical techniques

Robert Chapkin

proteolipid nanoclustering, membrane therapy , stem cells, exfoliomics and systems biology, aryl hydrocarbon receptor, host-microbe crosstalk, ...

Jae-Hyun Cho

protein-protein interactions, NMR, crystallography, structural biology, protein motion, inhibitor development, influenza virus, thermodynamics, ...

Jorge Cruz-Reyes

RNA editing and editosomes, trypanosome RNA biology, ribonucleoprotein complexes, small guide RNA, drug development

Sumana Datta

Honors and undergraduate research programming, diversity and inclusion in undergraduate programs, hunger/food insecurity and student success

Tim Devarenne

algal hydrocarbons, Botryococcus braunii, plant pathogen interactions, programmed cell death, protein kinase signaling

Margaret Glasner

protein evolution, enzyme promiscuity, metabolic pathway evolution, metabolic pathway discovery, comparative genomics

Vishal Gohil

mitochondria, mitochondrial respiratory chain, metals, membranes, metabolism, mitochondrial disorders, copper, cardiolipin, elesclomol, menkes disease

Ping He

plant immunity, cell death control, plant stress signaling and improvement, crop biotechnology, biochemical genetics, gene regulation, ...

Jennifer Herman

Bacterial genetics, development, metabolism, DNA replication, cell division, uncharacterized gene function

Magnus Höök

molecular microbial pathogenesis, protein interactions, protein engineering, vaccine and antibiotics discovery, translational research and ...

Tatyana Igumenova

signal transduction, membrane proteins, lipid membranes, lipid-activated kinases, AGC kinases, protein structure and dynamics, protein kinase C, ...

Geoffrey Kapler

Inna Krieger

protein structure and function relationship, protein crystallography, drug discovery, mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), central carbon metabolism, ...

Dmitry Kurouski

raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, plant pathology, digital agriculture, amyloids, plasmonics, bacteria

Pingwei Li

structural biology, molecular immunology, X-ray crystallography

Paul Lindahl

bioinorganic, biophysical, bioanalytical, metal ions, trafficking, math modeling, Mössbauer spectroscopy, chromatography, ICP-MS, mitochondria, ...

Wenshe Liu

COVID-19 drug discovery, chromatin biology, cancer epigenetics, posttranslational histone modifications, cancer drug discovery, the genetic code ...

Thomas Meek

inhibitors, enzyme mechanisms, medicinal chemistry, infectious diseases, rational design

John Mullet

genomics, gene regulatory networks, development, drought resilience, bioenergy crop design

Vladislav Panin

glycosylation, protein O-mannosylation, sialylation, sialyltransferase, neural transmission, axon wiring, muscular dystrophy, dystroglycanopathies, ...

William Park

mediator complex, gene regulation, regulatory evolution, ethanol tolerance, yeast genetics, structure/function tuning

Jean-Philippe Pellois

membrane biochemistry, molecular engineering and probe design, cellular delivery, cell-to-cell communication

Michael Polymenis

cell cycle, protein synthesis, ribosomal proteins, metabolism, cell size, longevity, yeast

Frank Raushel

enzyme catalysis, protein engineering & design, bioinformatics, catalytic detoxification, protein structure determination, new enzyme discovery, ...

Hays Rye

molecular chaperones, protein folding, protein quality control, disaggregation, membrane dynamics, membrane fission, nanoparticle dynamics, single ...

James Sacchettini

Stephen Safe

drug repositioning for cancer chemotherapy, NR4A receptor biology, NR4A1 ligand development and discovery, Ah receptor biology, Ah receptor ligand ...

Libo Shan

plant disease resistance, pathogen virulence, crop biotechnology, signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, ubiquitination.

Dorothy Shippen

telomerase, telomere, Arabidopsis, chromosome, ribonucleoprotein

Patrick Stover

one-carbon metabolism; genome stability; folate, B-vitamins; metabolic networks

Paul Straight

bacteria, microbiology, metabolism, antibiotics, signaling, microbial communities, secondary metabolites, bacillus subtilis, streptomyces, motility, ...

Xuewu Sui

Lipid biology, lipid biosynthesis and regulation, membranes, neutral lipids, phospholipids, drug discovery and development, molecular pharmacology, ...

Sing-Hoi Sze

bioinformatics, computational biology, sequence analysis, biological networks, high-throughput sequencing

David Threadgill

quantitative genetics, cancer genetics, gene-environment interactions, EGFR, ERBB, stem cells

Cecilia Tommos

protein electron transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer, PCET, amino-acid radicals, protein design, protein film voltammetry, unnatural ...

Josh Wand

molecular recognition, drug discovery, protein dynamics, NMR spectroscopy, thermodynamics, protein engineering, protein biologics, ubiquitin E3 ...

Ry Young

bacteriophage and bacterial molecular biology, membrane proteins, prokaryotic and phage bioinformatics and genomics, genetic engineering, phage ...

Lanying Zeng

Cellular decision making, cellular dynamics, quantitative biology, biophysics, bacteriophage, stochastic gene expression, high-resolution and ...

Junjie Zhang

structural biology, virus, bacteriophage, ribosome, toxin, cryo-EM, molecular modeling

Xiuren Zhang

RNA silencing, RNA structure and remodeling, ribonuceloprotein complexes, epitranscriptome, epigenetics, host-virus interaction, geminivirus, ...