The central focus of the Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics is the relationship between form and function.  The goal of the program is to provide students with a foundation in the physical and quantitative methods necessary to explore the molecular basis of biological events.

The nearly seventy faculty of the Graduate Group have a common theme of seeking to understand biological phenomena using an array of genetic, biochemical and biophysical approaches. 

Research topics are far-ranging and include the genetic, biochemical and structural basis of signal transduction; membrane biochemistry; biochemical imaging; mechanisms of transcription; replication and recombination; molecular immunology; protein structure, dynamics and folding; enzymology; regulation of metabolism; RNA biochemistry; de novo protein design; and the mechanism of action of large protein "machines"