Faculty

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Gerontology
Expertise: Chemical Neurobiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Post-translational protein modification in neuro-degeneration and aging
Professor of Biophysics; Professor of Physics
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Physical properties of plasma membrane lipids
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Expertise: Chemical Microbiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Mechanisms of Subcellular Organization in Bacteria
Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics & Biological Chemistry; Founding Co-Director, Center for RNA Biomedicine; Founding Director, Single Molecule Analysis in Real-Time (SMART) Center
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Structural dynamics and applications of RNA and DNA
  • Director, Cancer Drug Discovery Program, Co-Director, Molecular Therapeutics Program, U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Medicine; Professor Internal Medicine; Professor of Pharmacology; Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Drug design, synthesis, apoptosis, epigenetics, protein-protein interaction, new computational methods for protein-drug interaction
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Chemical Neurobiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Optogenetic tools, protein engineering, directed evolution, neuroscience
Sarah Winans Newman Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Expertise: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Myosin V based transport and phosphoinositide lipid signaling in yeast and in neurons
  • Associate Director for Basic Science Research, U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute; E Gifford and Love Barnett Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Transcriptional regulation of proteolytic effectors operative in cancer​
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology
Research:
Ultrasensitive single-molecule detection technologies; RNA therapeutics
Bernard W. Agranoff Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences; Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Expertise: Chemical Neurobiology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Sensory Neuroscience: molecular sensors that detect chemicals, temperature, touch, and light
Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Expertise: Cancer Chemical Biology, Macromolecular Structure and Function
Research:
Molecular complexes, membrane trafficking, breast Cancer

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