Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Spotlight
Yi-Wei Chang and George Burslem Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Please join us in congratulating both Yi-Wei Chang, PhD and George Burslem, PhD on their promotions to Associate Professor with Tenure! Yi-Wei serves as the Associate Director of the Institute of Structural Biology, and has been an integral part of Mass Spectrometry and CryoEM and CryoET research. George serves as a faculty advisor for the FERBS program, postdoc advisor, and BBCB admissions committee chair, and is a strong presence in Mass Spectrometry and Chemical Biology research. We are so grateful for all of their 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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Booker Lab in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
New paper from the Booker Lab, "Structural basis for iterative methylation by a cobalamin-dependent radical S-adenosylmethionine enzyme in cystobactamids biosynthesis"
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Sellmyer Lab in Mol Imaging Biol
Saturday, February 28, 2026
New paper from the Sellmyer Lab, "First-in-Human Biodistribution and Dosimetry of [11C]Trimethoprim"
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Van Duyne/Gupta Lab in PLoS Pathog
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
New paper from the Van Duyne/Gupta Lab, "Structures of nucleotide-bound Redondovirus Rep protein link conformation and function"
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.