BMB Faculty Listed by Department
of Primary Appointment

 

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Ben E. Black, Ph.D. Chromosome segregation; chromatin structure; epigenetic centromere specification; hydrogen/deuterium exchange

Britton Chance, Ph.D., Sc.D. Optical spectroscopy and imaging; photon migration in  tissues; cancer studies

William F. DeGrado, Ph.D. Peptide and protein design

Gideon Dreyfuss, Ph.D. Nuclear transport, hnRNP complexes, RNA-binding proteins,  spinal muscular atrophy

P. Leslie Dutton, Ph.D. Oxido-reductase engineering; design and chemical synthesis of  redox proteins

S. Walter  Englander, Ph.D. Protein folding; structure, structure change, and dynamics;  H-exchange; NMR

Roland G. Kallen, M.D., Ph.D. Structure, function, and regulation of expression of ion channels

Mark A. Lemmon, Ph.D. Biochemistry/biophysics of intermolecular interactions of growth factor receptor signaling

Mitchell Lewis, D.Phil. Gene regulation; protein crystallography; Structural basis of recognition

Paul A. Liebman, M.D. G-protein-receptor-arrestin mechanisms; visual signal  transduction.

Jeanne C. Myers, Ph.D. Structure-function of basement membrane zone collagens; connective tissue diseases

Hillary C.M. Nelson, Ph.D. Structural biology; transcription; protein-DNA interactions;  heat shock response

Tomoko Ohnishi, Ph.D. Structure-function studies of respiratory components;  biological EPR spectroscopy

Kim A. Sharp, Ph.D. Theory of protein and nucleic acid structure and function

James Shorter, Ph.D. Regulation of beneficial or neuropathogenic prions and amyloids by protein-remodeling factors, molecular chaperones, and small molecules

Cecilia Tommos, Ph.D. Protein radicals and electrochemistry; cation-π interactions; protein forced folding

Gregory D. Van Duyne, Ph.D. Structural biology; protein-protein interactions; x-ray  crystallography

Jane M. Vanderkooi, Ph.D. Fluorescence; infrared; heme proteins

Sergei A. Vinogradov, Ph.D. Functional macromolecules, optical imaging probes, porphyrin chemistry, dendrimer chemistry, oxygen microscopy and tomography

A. Joshua Wand, Ph.D., Graduate Group Chair, Protein structure and dynamics; molecular recognition and signal transduction; NMR spectroscopy

David F. Wilson, Ph.D. Integration of metabolism; oxidative phosphorylation; neuroregulation

Takashi Yonetani, Ph.D. Structure, mechanism, and spectroscopy of hemoproteins and heme enzymes

Department of Radiology

Ari Borthakur, Ph.D. MRI techniques for clinical applications

Mark Elliott, Ph.D. fMRI and diffuse light imaging neuronal activity

Ravinder Reddy, Ph.D., Sodium and oxygen-17 MR methods; multiple quantum and polarization transfer MR techniques

Felix W. Wehrli, Ph.D. MRI of biomaterials microstructure, mathematical modeling, image processing

Department of Physiology

Roberto Dominguez, Ph.D. Actin cytoskeleton, protein phosphatase 1, structural biology

Kathryn M. Ferguson, Ph.D. Structural biology, growth factor receptor signaling, molecular mechanisms of protein-protein interactions

Yale E. Goldman,  M.D., Ph.D. Motor proteins studied by photochemistry and spectroscopy

Todd Lamitina, Ph.D. Cellular osmoregulation, stress-induced gene expression, C. elegans genetics

Zhe Lu, M.D., Ph.D. Structure-function relationship of ion channels; molecular mechanisms of protein-protein interactions

E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D. Biochemistry of contractile proteins, biophysics of cell motility, and characterization of unconventional myosins

Brian M. Salzberg, Ph.D. Multiple-site optical recording; excitation-secretion coupling; neural networks

Department of Pharmacology

Paul H. Axelsen, M.D. Biophysical studies of molecular recognition and rational drug design

Doron Greenbaum, Ph.D. Protease function, chemical biology, proteomics, biochemistry, cell biology, malaria

Trevor M. Penning, Ph.D. Structure-function and gene regulation of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily

Wistar Institute

Shelley L. Berger,  Ph.D. Role of adaptors in regulation of transcriptional activation in yeast and humans

Anthony J. Capobianco, Ph.D. Molecular aspects of Notch signaling; cancer

Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D. Crystallography; biochemistry; transcription; cell-cycle; cancer

Emmanuel Skordalakes, Ph.D. X-ray crystallography; telomere biology; cancer and aging

David Speicher, Ph.D. Cancer proteomics; structure-function of membrane associated proteins: protein chemistry and mass spectrometry 

Department of Bioengineering

John C. Schotland, M.D., Ph.D. Physical optics with applications to biomedical imaging

Department of Chemistry

Tobias Baumgart, Ph.D. Biomembrane function: thermodynamics, dynamics and mechanics

Barry S. Cooperman, Ph.D. Enzyme catalysis, regulation,  ribosomes; kinetics; probes; bioorganic chemistry

Feng Gai, Ph.D. Spectroscopic study of protein folding/missfolding

Robin M. Hochstrasser, Ph.D. Photochemical and photobiological  dynamics; nonlinear optical spectroscopy

Michael Klein, Ph.D. Computer simulation of lipid membranes,  membrane proteins and ion channels

Jeffery G. Saven, Ph.D. Theory, simulation and design of proteins and folding molecules

Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine

Yair Argon, Ph.D. Quality control of protein folding in the cell by molecular chaperones

Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D. Pathobiology of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Michael S. Marks, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms of intracellular protein transport and organelle biogenesis

Bryan A. Wolf,  M.D., Ph.D. Signal transduction in beta cells and neurons; diabetes; Alzheimer's disease

X. Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D. ADAMTS13 metalloprotease and microvascular thrombosis

Department of Biology

Fevzi Daldal, Ph.D. Genetics, structure-function, regulation and biogenesis of cytochromes

Mark Goulian, Ph.D. Two-component signaling, bacterial regulatory circuits

Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Christopher Burd, Ph.D. Phosphatidylinositol signaling; Rab GTPase signaling

Phong Tran, Ph.D. Cytoskeleton organization and cellular pattern formation

John W. Weisel, Ph.D. Structural studies of molecular/cellular mechanisms in blood clotting and fibrinolysis

Department of Medicine

Charles S. Abrams, M.D., Phospholipid signaling pathways in platelets and lymphocytes

Joel S. Bennett, M.D. Regulation of integrin function

Lawrence Brass, M.D., Ph.D. Molecular basis for intracellular signaling in vascular biology

Wafik S. El-Deiry, M.D., Ph.D. Understanding and developing novel therapeutic strategies for cancer

Harvey Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Pathogenesis of dormancy in mycobacterium tuberculosis; biomolecular computation and enzymology and cell biology of serine proteases and serine protease inhibitors

School of Veterinary Medicine

John H. Wolfe, V.M.D., Ph.D. Glycoproteins; lysosomal enzymes;  storage diseases; gene transfer into brain

School of Dental Medicine

Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Ph.D. Tetraspanin protein structure and role in degenerative disease processes.

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Roland L. Dunbrack, Ph.D. Methods and applications of protein structure prediction

Heinrich Roder, Ph.D. NMR; protein folding mechanism; protein structure, dynamics and  function