Biochemistry Faculty

Anthony, Tracy

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Professor | Department of Nutritional Sciences | 1.8489326331 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Protein and amino acid metabolism; adaptation to cell stress by eIF2 and mTOR pathways; nutrition and exercise
Arnold, Edward

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology | 1.8484459777 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
HIV, AIDS, drugs, vaccines, crystallography, structural biology
Axelrod, David

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Professor | Genetics | 1.8484452011 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cell and molecular oncology, breast cancer, colon cancer
Barber, Annika

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Assistant Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Neural signal integration in Drosophila behavioral circuits
Barr, Maureen

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Genetics | 1.8484451639 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cilia cell biology, sensory behaviors, and modeling human genetic diseases in C. elegans
Baum, Jean

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Chemistry | 1.8484455666 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
NMR, protein folding, molecular recognition
Boison, Detlev

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Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | 1.7322356373 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Epigenetics of epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, comorbidities in neurology, role of adenosine in cancer, metabolic therapies
Boyd, Jeff

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Associate Professor | Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology | 1.8489325604 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bacterial pathogenesis, antibiotic resistance, metal ion homeostasis, molecular microbiology, oxidative stress, environmental sensing
Breslauer, Kenneth J

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Professor | Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology | 1.8484453956 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Drug-DNA interactions, DNA polymorphism, macroscopic and microscopic characterizations of inter- and intramolecular forces, biothermodynamics, DNA lesions and mechanisms of mutagenesis and repair, ligand-biopolymer recognition, rational drug design, DNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics
Brewer, Gary

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.7322353473 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in cancer, immune responses, and congestive heart failure
Brill, Steven J

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484459863 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DNA replication, DNA repair, DNA helicase, genetic analysis, genome stability, protein purification, yeast
Bunting, Samuel F

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Associate Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484459894 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cell survival and DNA repair in mammals
Carman, George M

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Board of Governors Professor | Department of Food Science | 1.8489320267 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Regulation of Phospholipid Metabolism/Signaling in Yeast
Chada, Kiran

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.7322354026 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mammalian genetics. human diseases, developmental biology, obesity cancer
Chen, Suzie

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Professor | Department of Chemical Biology | 1.8484457243 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mouse model of melanoma, regulation of cell signaling by G-protein-coupled receptor
Dai, Wei

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Assistant Professor | Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484456560 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Structural biology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-electron tomography
Demokritou, Philip

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Professor | Division of Environmental & Population Health Biosciences | 1.8484450155 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
nanobiology, nanotoxicology; environmental pollutants
Dismukes, G. Charles

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | 1.8484451489 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Microbial metabolism and renewable energy production
Driscoll, Monica

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484457182 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Developmental neurogenetics. molecular genetics of neuronal cell death. mechanosensory transduction in touch and feeling. molecular mechanisms of aging
Ebright, Richard

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Board of Governors Professor | Department of Chemistry | 1.8484455179 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bacterial transcription complexes: structure, mechanism, and regulation. Antituberculosis and antibacterial drug discovery
Edery, Isaac

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484459896 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mechanisms governing wake-sleep states, connections between sleep, metabolism and diseases, circadian clocks, hormone-binding proteins, sensory-mediated arousal, thermal adaptation, pre-mRNA splicing, Drosophila models
El Ouaamari, Abdelfattah

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Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine | 1.7322358460 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organ Crosstalk, Energy Homeostasis, Pancreas, Insulin-Producing β Cells, Diabetes
Fei, Jia

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Assistant Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484456896 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chromatin dynamics, Gene regulation, Transcription elongation, Epigenetic mechanisms
Firestein, Bonnie

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Professor | Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484458045 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dendrite Branching, Schizophrenia, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Synaptic Plasticity, Learning and Memory, Autism
Fondell, Joseph

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Associate Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322353348 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear hormone receptors. Pathological role of nuclear receptors in hormone dependent cancers
Foran, David

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Professor | Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine | 1.7322356925 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Computer-assisted diagnostics, medical imaging, machine learning, data mining, medical informatics
Gartenberg, Marc

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1.7322355800 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sister chromatid cohesion; gene expression; chromatin and epigenetics
Gelinas, Celine

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.8484459802 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cancer, oncogenes, transcription factor, cell proliferation, apoptosis
Gerecke, Donald

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Associate Professor | Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy | 1.8484450233 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Skin, Laminins, Collagens, and Extra Cellular Matrix, with particular interest in skin wound repair and countermeasures to sulfur mustard damage
Gordon, Marion K

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Associate Professor | Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | 1.8484453751 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cell-matrix interactions; cel,. developmental and molecular biology of extracellular matrix molecules
Grant, Barth

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484457339 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Receptor trafficking and signaling, Genetics, Cell Biology, Membranes, Endocytosis, C. elegans, Functional Genomics
Gu, Sam

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Associate Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484450824 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
RNA-directed chromatin modification and epigenetic memory
Gunderson, Samuel I.

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Associate Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484451016 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Regulation of polyadenylation and splicing of mRN, RNA-protein interactions, bioinformatics of gene expression
Guo, Jessie Yanxiang

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Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine | 1.7322359657 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cancer metabolism, autophagy, oncogenes, cancer metastasis, metabolomics, lung cancer therapy
Hinrichs, Christian S.

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Professor | Department of Medicine | 1.7322353241 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Immunotherapy, cell therapy, human papillomavirus, cervical cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, anal cancer
Hsu, Shu-Chan

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Associate Professor | Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484451665 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development and function
Hu, Wenwei

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Professor | Department of Radiation Oncology | 1.7322356169 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
p53, tumor suppressor, stress response, apoptosis; single nucleotide polymorphism; microRNA, tumor, development and reproduction
Inouye, Masayori

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.8484459813 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular biology of cellular adaptation to stresses
Irvine, Kenneth

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484452332 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cell-signaling, growth control, cancer, morphogenesis, mechanotransduction
Jin, Shengkan (Victor)

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Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322354329 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Targeting mitochondria for treating metabolic diseases and cancer, and treating genetic diseases by a new precision gene editing technology
Khare, Sagar

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Associate Professor | Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology | 1.8484455143 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Design principles of molecular recognition
Kiledjian, Megerditch (Mike)

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Professor | Dept Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484453306 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
RNA Decay in the regulation of Gene Expression and Genetic Disorders
Kim, Isaac

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Professor | Department of Surgery/Division of Urology | 1.7322352043 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Roles of transforming growth factor- β and bone morphongenetic proteins in prostate cancer cells
Kohn, Joachim B

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Board of Governors Professor | Department of Chemistry | 1.8484450488 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Biocompatibility of medical implant materials, artificial biopolymers
Kong, Tony Ah-Ng

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Pharmaceutics | 1.8484456369 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mitochondrial metabolism, epigenetics/epigenomics; NRF2-mediated redox signaling; Cancer preventive dietary phytochemicals; pharmacokinetics (PK)/pharmacodynamics (PD)
Kulczyk, Arek

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Assistant Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology | 1.8484454553 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM, structure determination, single-molecule, biophysics, correlative light and electron microscopy, CLEM, DNA replication, DNA polymerase
Kwan, Kelvin

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Associate Professor | Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484451781 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular basis of inner ear regeneration
Lam, Eric

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Plant Biology & Pathology | 1.8489326351 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gene expression, chromatin structure, signal transduction, programmed cell death, gene targeting, leaf morphogenesis
Langer, Jerome A

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Associate Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322355224 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Structure and function of interferons and interferon receptors; development of Type I IFN antagonists; role of IFNs in autoimmune diseases such as lupus
Laskin, Debra L

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Toxicology | 1.8484455862 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Immunology, macrophages, nitric oxide, inflammation
Laskin, Jeffrey D.

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Environmental & Community Medicine | 1.8484450176 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cancer research, oncogene expression and growth factor mediated signal transduction, tyrosine kinases, immunobiology of inflammation, nitric oxide
Lattime, Edmund C

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Professor | Department of Surgery | 1.7322358588 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tumor immunology, immune mechanisms, genetically-based vaccine strategies
Lee, Jeehiun Katherine

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Professor | Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology | 1.8484456562 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity. recognition. and catalysis
Lee, Ki-Bum

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology | 1.8484452081 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chemical biology, Nanotechnology, Drug/Gene Delivery, Biomaterials/Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell Biology, Molecular Imaging, Synthetic Biology, and Functional Genomics
Libutti, Steven K

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Professor | Department of Surgery | 1.7322358064 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Pathogenesis of neuroendocrine tumors, familiar cancer syndrome MEN1 and vHL
Liu, Alice Y.-C.

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Professor | Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience | 1.8484452730 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Harnessing HSF1 for protein mis-folding diseases
Liu, Fang

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Associate Professor | Department of Chemical Biology | 1.8484459783 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Signal transduction and gene regulation, growth and differentiation control
Liu, Tina

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Assistant Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484459863 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Microbial defense pathways, CRISPR-Cas systems, nucleotide signaling, nucleic acid detection, diagnostics, biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology
Madireddy, Advaitha

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Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology | 1.7322353451 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Genomic instability, DNA replication, DNA repair, Fanconi anemia, Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and fragile sites
Madura, Kiran

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Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322355602 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation in DNA repair and signal transduction
Maliga, Pal

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Professor | Department of Genetics | 1.8484455329 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular genetics of plastids, plastid engineering, regulation of plastid gene expression
Manowitz, Paul

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Professor | Department of Psychiatry | 1.7322354347 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Biochemical and molecular biological studies of human behavior
Manzini, M. Chiara

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Associate Professor | Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology | 1.7322353245 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disability, cognition, intracellular signaling, human genetics
Matise, Tara

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Professor | Department of Genetics | 1.8484453125 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Computational Genetics
Matsumura, Fumio

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Professor | Deptartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484452838 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Control of cell division, microfilaments, cytokinesis, protein phosphorylation, cell transformation
McKinnon, Randy D.

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Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | 1.7322354419 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Developmental neurobiology, neuroncology, growth factors
Mickolajczyk, Keith

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Assistant Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.7322355888 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ribosome biogenesis, motor proteins, mechanobiology, single-molecule biophysics
Monahan, Kevin

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Assistant Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gene regulation, chromatin, nuclear architecture, olfaction
Nanda, Vikas

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry | 1.8484459810 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Protein evolution and folding, computational de novo design of proteins and biomimetics
Nickels, Bryce

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Professor | Department of Genetics | 1.8484456852 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mechanism of transcription, regulation of bacterial gene expression
Olson, Wilma K

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Professor | Department of Chemistry | 1.8484453993 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Biopolymer conformation and properties
Patel, Smita

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.7322353372 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription and studies of innate immunity receptors in virus recognition
Payne, Kyle K

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Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine | 1.7322359629 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cancer Immunology; Immune Suppression; Ovarian Cancer; Cellular Stress Signaling; Biochemistry
Pintar, John E

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Professor | Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology | 1.7322354250 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Genetic and microarray analysis of endogenous opioid systems; insulin-like growth factor systems in development and cancer; post-translational processing enzymes
Rabson, Arnold B

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Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322359523 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gene regulation in cancer, human retroviral infections
Roth, Charles M.

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Professor | Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering | 1.8484456686 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gene-based therapeutics; bioinformatics and systems biology; hepatocyte differentiation; novel strategies for treatment of brain tumors
Roth, Monica

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Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322355048 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Retroviruses: integration, reverse transcriptase, envelope proteins, gene therapy, targeted entry, structural studies
Steward, Ruth

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484453917 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stem cells, hematopoiesis,and epigenetic control of chromatin integrity in Drosophila
Stock, Ann

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.8484459812 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Structure/function analysis of signal transduction proteins
Su, Xiaoyang

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Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine | 1.7322355447 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Metabolomics, mass spectrometry, metabolic flux analysis
Suh, Nanjoo

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Professor | Department of Chemical Biology | 1.8484458030 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mechanistic study of cancer prevention & inflammation-natural/synthetic agents
Vershon, Andrew K

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484452905 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Transcriptional regulation in yeast
Wadsworth, William

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Professor | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | 1.7322355768 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Extracellular matrix and the guidance of cell migrations in C. elegans
Walworth, Nancy C

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Professor | Department of Pharmacology | 1.7322355661 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Cell cycle checkpoint control in response to DNA damage
White, Eileen

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Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.7322355329 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, apoptosis, autophagy, cancer metabolism
White, Lori A

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Associate Professor | Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology | 1.8489325605 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced pathologies
Winkelmann, Donald A

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Professor | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | 1.7322354759 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Protein structure, molecular motors, protein engineering, macromolecular assembly, muscle contraction
Woychik, Nancy

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1.7322354534 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Non-coding RNAs and Human Disease
Xia, Bing

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Professor | Department of Radiation Oncology | 1.7322357410 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, oxidative stress, breast cancer, Fanconi anemia
Yang, Chung S

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Professor | Department of Chemical Biology | 1.8484455360 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and its prevention
You, Guofeng

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Distinguished Professor | Department of Pharmaceutics | 1.8484456349 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Drug/Xenobiotic Absorption, Distribution and Elimination, Membrane Transporters
Yurchenco, Peter

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Professor | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | 1.7322354674 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Assembly, structure and function of basement membranes
Zaratiegui, Mikel

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Associate Professor | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | 1.8484451497 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chromatin Dynamics, Heterochromatin, RNA interference, Transposons, Silencing, Replication, Genome Integrity, Fission Yeast genetics
Zarbl, Helmut

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Professor | Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine | 1.8484452354 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mammary carcinogenesis, Lung Carcinogenesis, Mechanisms of toxicity, Genetic susceptibility, Toxicogenomics, Tumor suppressor genes, Functional genomics, Signal transduction, Transcriptional regulation, Mutagenesis
Zylstra, Gerben J

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Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology | 1.8489326298 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Molecular and biochemical basis for microbial aromatic hydrocarbon degradation

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