UMKC School of Biological Sciences: Graduate Programs

Graduate Faculty in the School of Biological Sciences

Students interested in the Graduate Program are encouraged to contact faculty whose research areas interest them.
Publications provide a PubMed listing of papers.
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Name	Research Interests
Bame, Karen	Protein characterization, molecular basis of enzyme-substrate interactions, mechanism of enzyme action.
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Belostotsky, Dmitry	Gene expression mechanisms, RNA processing and metabolism genetics, genomics and development.
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Chekanova, Julia	Relationships between mRNA quality control, processing and export in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Chronwall, Bibie	Mechanisms for coincident signaling by dopamine D₂ and GABA_B receptors.
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Dobens, Leonard	Developmental mechanisms of pattern formation, cell-cell signaling pathways, transcriptional control, model organisms.
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Dreyfus, Lawrence	Molecular biology and biochemistry of bacterial toxins.
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Ferrari, Michael	Calcium signal dynamics in developing muscle, physiological regulation of pattern formation and macromolecular assembly, regulation of calcium-dependent kinases.
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Geisbrecht, Brian	Structural Biochemistry of Bacterial Virulence and Pathogenesis; X-ray Crystallography and Scattering; Molecular Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions.
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Gogol, Edward	Structure-function studies of macromolecular assemblies, using cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction. Specific projects: mechanisms and regulation of proteasomes and chaperonins.
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Honigberg, Saul	Signal Transduction. Cell cycle control and cell differentiation.
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Iriarte, Ana	Enzyme structure and relationship of enzyme structure to function. Mechanisms of processing and transport of proteins across membranes. Protein folding and the role of molecular chaperones.
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King, Stephen	Molecular motors and motility, cytoskeleton, protein : protein interactions
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Laity, John	Molecular Recognition; NMR spectroscopy; protein biophysical chemistry.
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Mattingly, Joseph	Protein engineering by rational design and directed in vitro evolution, biophysical studies of protein folding, proteomics, protein-protein interactions.
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Menees, Thomas	Yeast molecular biology, retrotransposons, host-element interactions, reverse transcription.
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Miziorko, Henry	Study of enzyme catalysis and regulation using chemical, biophysical, & molecular biology approaches; lipid biosynthesis; enzymes in inherited disease.
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Morgan, William	Protein structure-function relationships, regulation of blood clot formation and breakdown, spectroscopic and biochemical analysis of ligand-protein and protein-receptor interactions, use of monoclonal antibodies and site-directed mutagenesis to probe protein mechanisms of action.
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O'Connor, Michael	Structure and function of the bacterial ribosome; communication within and between the ribosomal subunits; maintenance of translational reading frame.
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Persechini, Anthony	The molecular basis of signaling through Ca²⁺, spatial and kinetic factors controlling cell signaling, enzyme and ligand-binding kinetics, protein engineering, molecular recognition.
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Plamann, Lynda	Cell-cell communication during fruiting body formation and sporulation in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus; exploration of intracellular and intercellular signal transduction mechanisms in M. xanthus.
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Plamann, Michael	Microtubule-associated motors, organelle movement, growth polarity, cytoskeleton.
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Price, Jeffrey	Drosophila genetics, chronobiology, circadian rhythms, transcriptional regulation, regulation of protein stability by protein kinases, protein-protein interactions.
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Read, G. Sullivan	Control of mRNA stability in mammalian cells, post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in cells infected with herpes simplex virus, site-specific mutagenesis of viral genes affecting MRNA stability.
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Smith, Ann	Regulation of expression of proteins; Heme transport in liver, eye, the peripheral and central nervous systems. Receptor-mediated endocytosis; structure-function relationships in ligand-protein and protein-receptor interactions.
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Thomas, Jr., George J.	Virus structure and assembly, protein-nucleic acid recognition, DNA and RNA structures, protein conformation; development of laser Raman spectroscopy as a probe of structure, interaction and dynamics of biomolecules and macromolecular assemblies.
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Waterborg, Jakob	Structure-function relationships in chromatin, post-synthetic modification of histones by acetylation and methylation, assembly and stability of nucleosomal structure, evolution of histone variant functions.
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Wyckoff, Gerald	Bioinformatics database development, study of evolutionary processes at the molecular level, large scale comparative genomics, sexual selection.
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Yoder, Marilyn	Protein structure and function; protein crystallization and macromolecular X-ray diffraction analysis; protein-saccharide interactions; protein-phospholipid interactions. X-ray crystallographic analysis is the primary research tool used for structure determination.
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Yu, Xiao-Qiang (Sean)	Insect immunity: biochemistry, molecular biology and function of immune-related genes. Signal transduction pathways: regulation of the expression of antimicrobial peptide genes. Structural biology: Protein-protein/ligand interactions.
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