Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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2025 Department Retreat

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We would like to extend our thanks to those who attended this year's retreat at Skytop Lodge! We were thrilled to have another year of great talks, posters, and fun. Thank you again to all the faculty, staff, and students who came together to make this year's retreat a success!

                                                                               

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Kristen W. Lynch, PhD
Chair
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Ronen Marmorstein, PhD
Vice Chair

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

  • 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"

  • 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"

  • 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"

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Seminars & Events

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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