Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology (BBSB)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
Jeffrey Abramson
Membrane Protein Structure and Function
Anne Andrews
Serotonin neurotransmitter system and complex behaviors
Amjad Askary*
Lineage and cell fate specification in the mammalian retina
Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response
Ambre Bertholet*
controlling mitochondrial energy distribution to combat pathologies associated with impaired mitochondrial function
Gal Bitan
Development of therapeutic and diagnostic tools for proteins aggregation diseases
Douglas Black*
Regulation of gene expression through pre-mRNA splicing
Manish Butte
T cell activation and tolerance; genetic immunodeficiency and autoimmunity
Samson Chow
Molecular mechanisms of viral integration into host DNA
Heather Christofk*
Signaling pathways and metabolism in stem cells and cancers
Robert Clubb*
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis
Stuart Conway
Developing small molecules that modulate cancer-relevant epigenetic targets
Rachelle Crosbie*
Cell-matrix interactions in neuromuscular disease
David Eisenberg*
Protein Structure, folding and design
Kym Faull
Mass spectrometry, metabolomics and proteomics
Juli Feigon
Nucleic acid structure and function
Samuel French
Proteomic study of liver cancer development
William Gelbart*
Physical aspects of viral infectivity and gene delivery systems
Ben Glasgow
Structure and function of lipid carrier proteins in tears
Tamir Gonen*
Structures and functions of membrane proteins involved in homeostasis using cryoEM
Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development
Zhefeng Guo
Structure and fibrillization mechanisms of amyloid fibrils
Kent Hill*
Motility and Signaling Functions of the Trypanosome Cilium
Kendall Houk*
Computational investigation of chemical and biological reactions
Jing Huang*
Structure and function of protein networks in the cell
Wayne Hubbell
Protein structure and dynamics using EPR spectroscopy
Lin Jiang*
Computational structural biology and drug design for protein aggregation diseases
Tracy Johnson*
Pre-messenger RNA splicing and processing; chromatin modification
Carla Koehler*
Mitochondrial biogenesis- protein translocation into mitochondria
Siavash Kurdistani*
Epigenetics in biology and disease
Raphael Levine
Theoretical systems biology
Joseph Loo*
Studying protein expression and structure by proteomics and mass spec.
Daniel Low
Modeling of human breathing motion, radiation therapy
Megan McEvoy
Mechanisms of bacterial metal ion handling systems
Mayank Mehta
Neural mechanisms of space-time perception using virtual reality and computational modeling
Riccardo Olcese
Molecular physiology of voltage dependent ion channels
Gregory Payne
Mechanisms of intracellular protein traffic and endocytosis
Kathrin Plath*
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer
Margot Quinlan*
Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton
Jian Yu Rao
Develop tools for cancer screening and early detection
Jose Rodriguez
Atomic analysis of protein nano-assemblies
Amy Rowat
Physical properties, structure and function of cells and the nucleus
Saman Sadeghi
Radiofluorination of bioactive molecules
Hui Sun
Targeting new classes of membrane receptors to develop novel therapeutics
Hung Ton-That*
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity
Gabriel Travis*
Biochemistry of vertebrate photoreceptors
Julio Vergara
Excitation-contraction coupling in mammalian muscle
Wei Wang
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Shimon Weiss
Single molecule biophysics; macromolecular interactions
James Wohlschlegel
Dissecting Ubiquitin-regulated Signaling Networks
Todd Yeates*
Structural, computational, and synthetic biology
Stephen Young*
Pathogenesis of hypertriglyceridemia and diseases of the nuclear lamina
Jie Zheng*
Therapeutic development in ophthalmology and Wnt signaling pathways
Hong Zhou*
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes
