Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Spotlight
Mark Sellmyer Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Please join us in congratulating Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD on his promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure! Mark has been a leader in the Chemical Biology space over the years, acting as the Co-Director for the Center for Translational Chemical Biology. We are so grateful for all of his contributions to this department!
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As one of the first departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the nation, we are proud of our strong tradition of combining cutting-edge technology with impactful biology. We continue to leverage this interdisciplinary approach to yield break-through discoveries in biomedicine.
Our faculty of over 30 primary and secondary members cover a broad range of research areas, with particular strengths in structural biology, chemical biology, gene regulation and protein folding.
We are also the proud home of the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Research Foundation which offers advanced physical instrumentation and instruction to researchers across campus. We are actively growing, with several recent hires, and our faculty are broadly engaged across campus with many joint appointments in other departments, institutes and centers.
We welcome you to learn more about our department in the following pages or contact us.
News & Publications
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Sgourakis Lab in Sci Adv
Friday, January 2, 2026
New paper from the Sgourakis Lab, "HLA-Shuttle: A system for enhancing antigen presentation in immunologically cold tumors"
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Shorter Lab in Mol Cell
Thursday, January 8, 2026
New paper from the Shorter Lab, "Defining RNA oligonucleotides that reverse deleterious phase transitions of RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains"
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Lynch Lab in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
New paper from the Lynch Lab, "Nonsense-mediated decay controls a negative feedback loop in innate immune sensing"
Seminars & Events
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Raiziss Rounds Seminars
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Our Spring 2025 Raiziss Rounds Seminar Series will begin on January 9th and will continue on Thursdays at 12:00 noon until May 15th. The full seminar schedule can be found on our Raiziss Rounds page.
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Friday Research Discussions
Friday, January 17, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
4:00pm
Friday Research Discussions occur every Friday at 4:00pm in the JF Library. View the full schedule for the semester here.