Biochemistry Faculty - Listing

  • 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, Eddy

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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, iron-sulfur clusters, 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

  • Dismukes, G. Charles

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    Distinguished Professor | Department of Chemistry & 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

  • 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

  • Gabriel, Abram

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    Associate Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484459865 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Yeast, retrotransposons, reverse transcriptase, fidelity, DNA repair, chromosome stability

  • Gartenberg, Marc

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    Professor | Department of Biochemistry & 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 | (848) 445-1016, 1017
    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

  • Hampsey, Michael

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    Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.7322355888 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Gene expression, chromatin, yeast genetics

  • 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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    Associate 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

  • Kahn, Peter C

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    Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology | 1.8489325618 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Protein folding, subunit assembly, ligand interactions, hydration, dioxins and related compounds

  • 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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    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

  • Lobel, Peter

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    Professor | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1.8484459831 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, functional genomics, lysosomes, protein targeting

  • 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

  • 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, Randall D

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

  • 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

  • Severinov, Konstantin

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    Professor | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | 1.8484456095 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Genetic and biochemical analysis of RNA polymerases from E. coli and yeast, site-directed modification of proteins

  • 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

  • Thakker-Varia,Smita

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    Associate Professor | Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology | 1.7322355393 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Neurotrophic factors and neuropeptides in neuronal development, traumatic brain injury and mood disorders

  • Tischfield, Max

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    Assistant Professor | Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology | 1.7322358621 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Mouse models for craniofacial, neurovascular, and psychiatric disease

  • 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