Faculty by Research Interests
Chemical Biology
Burslem, Cherry, Kohli, Marmorstein, Petersson, Sellmyer, Vinogradov, Zhou
See also Center for Translational Chemical Biology
Gene Regulatory and Signaling Mechanisms
Bernstein, Black, Cherry, Dreyfuss, Gardini, Liu, Lynch, Shorter, Taabazuing, Tian
See also Institute for RNA Innovation
Structural Biology
Bowman, Chang, Gupta, Marmorstein, Moiseenkova-Bell, Murakami, Rhoades, Sgourakis, Sharp, Tolbert, Van Duyne
See also Institute for Structural Biology
Training opportunities are available in the following laboratories:
Kara Bernstein, PhD | Mechanisms of DNA repair, genome integrity, and cancer
Ben E. Black, PhD | Chromosome segregation; chromatin structure; epigenetic centromere specification; hydrogen/deuterium exchange
Greg Bowman, PhD | Developing therapeutics and interpreting genetic variation by understanding/exploiting protein dynamics using biophysical experiments, machine learning, physics-based simulations, and the world’s largest distributed computer
George Burslem, PhD | Chemical Biology of Post-Translational Modifications
Yi-Wei Chang, PhD | Cellular structural biology of host-pathogen interactions; cryo-electron tomography methods development
Sara Cherry, PhD | Viral-host interactions of emerging RNA viruses
Nicolai Doliba, PhD | Bioenergetics, metabolism, and membranes
Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD | Nuclear transport, hnRNP complexes, RNA-binding proteins, spinal muscular Atrophy
Alessandro Gardini, PhD | Understanding the role of enhancers and noncoding RNAs in transcriptional regulation in mammals
Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD | Molecular motors and protein synthesis studied by single molecule Biophysics
Kushol Gupta, PhD | Structural biology of large macromolecular assemblies that regulate genetic information; X-ray crystallography; small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering
Rahul Kohli, MD, PhD | Investigating the enzymatic basis for diversity generation in the immune system and pathogens; enzyme mechanisms, chemical biology, protein evolution
Kristen W. Lynch, PhD | Mechanism and consequences of regulated alternative splicing
Ronen Marmorstein, PhD | X-ray crystallography, chromatin regulation, tumor suppressors, oncoproteins, kinases, aging, structure-based inhibitor design
Vera Moiseenkova-Bell, PhD | Structural and functional analysis of ion channels and transporters using cryo electron microscopy and tomography
Kenji Murakami, PhD | Transcription initiation and regulation in eukaryote Itzhak Nissim
Trevor M. Penning, PhD | Structure-function of aldo-keto reductases; role in steroid hormone action and chemical carcinogenesis
Elizabeth Rhoades, PhD | Functional mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins involved in neurodegeneration
Mark. A. Sellmyer, MD, PhD | Molecular tools for cancer, infection, and immunology
Kim A. Sharp, PhD | Graduate Group Chair, Theory of protein and nucleic acid structure and function
James Shorter, PhD | Regulation of beneficial or neuropathogenic prions and amyloids by protein-remodeling factors, molecular chaperones, and small molecules
Cornelius Taabazuing, PhD | Chemical biology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of cell death
Bin Tian, PhD | Alternative polyadenylation, mRNA metabolism, and RNA-binding proteins
Blanton Tolbert, PhD
Gregory D. Van Duyne, PhD | Structural biology; protein-protein interactions; x-ray crystallography
Sergei A. Vinogradov, PhD | Functional macromolecules, optical imaging probes, porphyrin chemistry, dendrimer chemistry, oxygen microscopy and tomography