Raman spectroscopy.

Molecular biology and biochemistry of bacterial toxins.

Gene-mutation induced hypercytolipidemia on development and expression of dysregulated metabolic-, diabetes- and obese-syndromes on neural, hepato-pancreatic and female reproductive tract structure and function.

Structural biochemistry of bacterial virulence and pathogenesis; X-ray crystallography and scattering; molecular analysis of protein-protein interactions.

Molecular mechanisms of Drosophila muscle development.

Structure-function studies of macromolecular assemblies, using cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction. Specific projects: mechanisms and regulation of proteasomes and chaperonins.

Signal transduction. Cell cycle control and cell differentiation.

Genetic controls of virulence and development in fungi.

Plants, gene expression, chromatin, transcription factors.

Molecular recognition; NMR spectroscopy; protein biophysical chemistry.

Characterization of classical mutants by complemention and chromosome walking, as well as whole genome sequencing.

Yeast molecular biology, retrotransposons, host-element interactions, reverse transcription.

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.

Microtubule-associated motors, organelle movement, growth polarity, cytoskeleton.

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.

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.

Student Services Coordinator-General and pre-professional advising; academic probation; student support services.

Virulence and drug resistance in medically important fungi.

Protein structure and function; macromolecular X-ray diffraction analysis; protein-saccharide interactions; protein-phospholipid interactions.

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.

Protein characterization, molecular basis of enzyme-substrate interactions, mechanism of enzyme action.

Cell adhesion; cell signaling; structural biology; X-ray crystallography.

Mechanisms of gene expression, RNA processing and metabolism, mRNA quality control and export.

Developmental mechanisms of pattern formation, cell-cell signaling pathways, transcriptional control, model organisms.

Instructor in physiology.

Evolution neurobiology of the cerebellum.

Developing and practicing methods of identification and post-translational modification analysis of protein by mass spectrometry.

Evolutionary biology, ecology, marine and aquatic biology, entomology, science education, undergraduate research.

Protein engineering by rational design and directed in vitro evolution, biophysical studies of protein folding, proteomics, protein-protein interactions.

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School

Study of enzyme catalysis and regulation using chemical, biophysical, & molecular biology approaches; lipid biosynthesis; enzymes in inherited disease.

Structure and function of the bacterial ribosome; communication within and between the ribosomal subunits; maintenance of translational reading frame.

Molecular basis of Ca²⁺ signaling, spatial and kinetic factors controlling cell signaling, enzyme and ligand-binding kinetics, protein engineering, molecular recognition.

Drosophila genetics, chronobiology, circadian rhythms, transcriptional regulation, regulation of protein stability by protein kinases, protein-protein interactions.

Undergraduate advising; population modeling and ecology of mammals.

Regulation of endogenous modulators of drinking behaviors, integration of genomic basis of alcoholism to physiological and behavioral expression.

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.

Bioinformatics database development, study of evolutionary processes at the molecular level, large scale comparative genomics, sexual selection.

Structure and dynamic basis of proteins involved in lipids signaling, metabolism and regulation.

Genetic components of light-sensing in Phycomyces blakesleeanus