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All Microorganisms and Phage
Jennifer Herman
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Bacillus, bacterial genetics, cell division, development, DNA replication, gene function discovery, metabolism, morphogenesis, sporulation, uncharacterized gene function
Frank Raushel
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: enzyme catalysis, protein engineering & design, bioinformatics, catalytic detoxification, protein structure determination, new enzyme discovery, biosynthesis of complex carbohydrates, novel enzymes from human microbiome, orphan enzymes (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
James Sacchettini
Rodger J. Wolfe-Welch Foundation Chair, Science; Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Chemistry
Research Focus: Drug discovery and disease-related structural biology, including Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cryptosporidiosis, Chagas disease, Cancer, and Menkes syndrome (NOT CURRENTLY TAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS)
Paul Straight
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genetics
Research Focus: bacteria, microbiology, metabolism, antibiotics, signaling, microbial communities, secondary metabolites, bacillus subtilis, streptomyces, motility, bacterial genetics, mass spectrometry
Lanying Zeng
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: Cellular decision making, cellular dynamics, quantitative biology, biophysics, bacteriophage, bacterial pili, high-resolution and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, mathematical modeling
Junjie Zhang
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Focus: Translation in mycobacteria, intoxication and neutralization of the toxins from clostridium difficile, single-stranded RNA bacteriophages and their applications for RNA delivery