Faculty in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
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| Bame, Karen, Associate Professor | Protein characterization, molecular basis of enzyme-substrate interactions, mechanism of enzyme action. | |||
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| Belostotsky, Dmitry, Associate Professor | The School of Biological mourns the passing of Dmitry Belostotsky in March, 2009. He was a respected colleague and valuable faculty member of our school. We invite you to read comments from his colleagues published in the American Society for Plant Biology newsletter and the Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2009, Jun; 21(3), p. 335. | |||
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| Bouyain, Samuel, Assistant Professor | Cell adhesion; Cell signaling; Structural biology; X-ray crystallography. | |||
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| Chekanova, Julia, Assistant Professor |
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| Dobens, Leonard, Associate Professor | Developmental mechanisms of pattern formation, cell-cell signaling pathways, transcriptional control, model organisms. | |||
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| Ferrari, Michael, Associate Professor | Calcium signal dynamics in developing muscle, physiological regulation of pattern formation and macromolecular assembly, regulation of calcium-dependent kinases. | |||
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| Fox, Catherine, Adjunct Professor | ||||
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| Grindstaff, Regina, Research Assistant Professor | Neural control of cardiovascular function and body fluid homeostasis | |||
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| Huang, Chi-ming, Associate Professor | Evolution neurobiology of the cerebellum | |||
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| Iriarte, Ana, Associate Professor Emeritus | 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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| Keightley, Andrew, Research Associate Professor | Developing and practicing methods of identification and post-translational modification analysis of protein by Mass Spectrometry. | |||
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| King, Stephen, Associate Professor | Molecular motors and motility, cytoskeleton, protein : protein interactions | |||
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| Likins, Lee, Research Instructor | Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Marine and Aquatic Biology, Entomology, Science Education, Undergraduate Research | |||
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| MacQuarrie, Ronald, Professor | Vice Provost and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies | |||
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| Mattingly, Joseph, Teaching Specialist | Protein engineering by rational design and directed in vitro evolution, biophysical studies of protein folding, proteomics, protein-protein interactions. | |||
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| Miziorko, Henry, Professor | Study of enzyme catalysis and regulation using chemical, biophysical, & molecular biology approaches; lipid biosynthesis; enzymes in inherited disease. | |||
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| Morgan, William, Professor Emeritus | Interim Vice Provost for Research | |||
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| O'Connor, Michael, Associate Professor | 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, Professor | 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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| Price, Jeffrey, Associate Professor | Drosophila genetics, chronobiology, circadian rhythms, transcriptional regulation, regulation of protein stability by protein kinases, protein-protein interactions. | |||
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| Reed, Aaron, Research Assistant Professor | Undergraduate advising; population modeling and ecology of mammals | |||
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| Resch, Garth, Associate Professor | Regulation of endogenous modulators of drinking behaviors, integration of genomic basis of alcoholism to physiological and behavioral expression. | |||
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| Smith, Ann, Professor | 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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| Wiens, Christina, Lecturer | ||||
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| Wyckoff, Gerald, Associate Professor | Bioinformatics database development, study of evolutionary processes at the molecular level, large scale comparative genomics, sexual selection. | |||
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