Faculty
- Director, Program in Chemical Biology
Mary Sue Coleman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Chemistry
Research:
Development of biocatalytic methods, complex molecule synthesis, natural products
- Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Research:
Chemical ecology and drug discovery from host-microbe systems
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (January 2025)
Research:
Microbial biosynthesis using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Professor of Biophysics; Professor of Chemistry
Research:
Live-cell super-resolution imaging, single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, plasmonics, and nanophotonics
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research:
Developing computer models to understand how complex networks in a cell – spanning metabolism, gene regulation and signaling – interact with each other, how these networks break down in disease, and how they can be targeted for therapy using drug combinations.
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research:
Our lab uses a variety of biochemical, microscopic, and genetic techniques to elucidate amyloid fiber polymerization.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Protein Organelles, Cellular Organization, Microbiome, Natural Products, Microbial Metabolism, cryo-EM
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor and Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Pediatrics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research:
Molecular genetics of blood clotting
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research:
Protein regulation by Ubiquitin-like post-translational modifications, mechanism of action and pathobiology of steroid hormone receptors, basic mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, drug discovery and development
William Roush Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics
Research:
Uncovering the mechanisms and functional roles of ncRNAs in disease progression using a combination of biomolecular NMR and other biophysical and structural tools.
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Research:
Natural product drug discovery from plants
Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Enzyme mechanism and structure, protein design
Assistant Research Scientist, Life Sciences Institute; Research Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Microbial Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Natural Products
David Ballou Collegiate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Enzyme mechanisms, metals in biology, redox regulation
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine; Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Faculty Lead, Drug Repurposing, MICHR
Research:
Drug discovery, drug repurposing and drug development for diabetes and obesity