Faculty
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Basic mechanisms of membrane-bound protein-quality control systems.
Professor of Biophysics; Professor of Chemistry
Research:
Live-cell super-resolution imaging, single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, plasmonics, and nanophotonics
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research:
Investigating how chlorophyll is modified to absorb a broader range of light and how organisms build and tailor sunscreen pigments that provide protection from harmful UV-radiation
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology; Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Research:
Lipid modifications and intracellular signal transduction in cardiac pathophysiology
- Director of the Biophysics Program
Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics; Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry
Research:
Physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, biophysics
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research:
Our lab uses a variety of biochemical, microscopic, and genetic techniques to elucidate amyloid fiber polymerization.
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance through structural and biochemical studies of histones and their regulators
Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
The structural biology and biophysics underlying microtubule-based intracellular transport, defects in which can result in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases.
- Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research:
Mechanism and regulation of microtubule-associated motor proteins
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.
Professor of Biological Chemistry
Research:
Molecular interactions in living cells, nucleoprotein complex binding specificity and dynamics, protein modifications in living cells, chromatin and epigenetic regulation, transcription regulatory mechanisms
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Research:
Natural product drug discovery from plants