Graduate Biochemistry Group faculty
Faculty name |
Research description |
Katsura Asano |
Yeast genetics and biochemistry; research interest in mechanism and control of eukaryotic translation initiation. |
Jianhan Chen |
Computer modeling of biomolecules. |
Lawrence Davis |
Plant biochemistry and molecular biology; plant-based bioremediation; nitrogen fixation; science education. |
Timothy Durrett |
Biochemistry of triacylglycerol biosynthesis; structure and function of membrane bound acyltransferases; genetically modifying the physical properties of seed oils for industrial and biofuel applications. |
Peying Fong |
Regulation of sodium and chloride transport by epithelial cells, with a focus on the functional interactions between the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR). |
Roman Ganta |
Evaluation of surface antigen genes of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Ehrlichia canis and host immune response against the pathogens using experimental animal model systems. |
Revathi Govind |
Pathogenic microbiology and bacterial genetics. |
Michael Kanost |
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology; structure and function of hemolymph serine proteinases, proteinase inhibitors, and antibacterial response proteins from insects; biochemistry of insect cuticle sclerotization. |
Phillip Klebba |
Iron acquisition by active transport through the cell envelopes of bacteria; Immunological approaches to bacterial pathogenesis; Biophysical analyses of bacterial membrane transport in living cells. |
Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthi |
Structural biology; NMR studies of protein structure, dynamics, and stability in relation to function; serine proteinases and their protein inhibitors; signal transduction enzymes (plant phospholipase D domains). |
Stella Lee |
Intracellular protein trafficking in health and diseases; protein defects in lysosomal storage diseases. |
Kristin Michel |
Regulation of mosquito innate immunity; malaria parasite-mosquito interactions. |
Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan |
Characterization of enzymes and genes involved in chitin metabolism and targeting them for insect control; enhancing disease and insect resistance of plants by genetic engineering. |
Annelise Nguyen |
Specific isoforms of Protein Kinase C (PKC) that are regulated connexins during cancer formation. |
Om Prakash |
Structural characterization and molecular recognition using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Computer Aided Molecular Design (CAMD). |
Gerald Reeck |
Molecular genetics of aphid salivary glands; hydrolases, proteases and protease inhibitors. |
Jeroen Roelofs |
Regulation of protein degradation by the proteasome. |
Jeremy Schmit |
Theoretical Biological Physics; Protein phase behavior; Protein crystallization; Amyloid fibril formation; Drug formulations; Self-assembly. |
Kathrin Schrick |
Plant molecular biology, developmental biology, plant sterols, START domains, sterols and cellulose; broadly focusing on deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying growth and development of flowering plants. |
Bruce Shultz |
Understanding physiological regulation of epithelial ion transport. |
Paul Smith |
Computer simulation of the structure and dynamics of peptides, proteins and nucleic acids; cosolvent effects on peptides and proteins; modeling of opioid peptides and their receptors. |
John Tomich |
Design and characterize atom of synthetic peptides for potential uses as drugs or renewable biomaterials. The lab employs a number of biologic, synthetic, analytic and physical methods to make these characterizations. |
Philine Wangemann |
Beta-adrenergic receptors, CGRP-receptors, endothelin receptors, Rho-kinase, KCNQ1-KCNE1 potassium channels, pendrin chloride/bicarbonate transporters, pharmacology, confocal microscopy and microfluorometry, immuno-FRET, micro-Ussing chamber and video-microscopy. |
Ruth Welti |
Developing and implementing mass-spectrometry-based lipid profiling strategies to understand the roles of particular lipids, as well as genes and proteins involved in lipid metabolism and lipid signaling. |
David Wetzel |
Quality determination; Instrumental analysis; Infrared micro spectroscopy; Chemical imaging; Instrument design and analytical method development in chromatography. |
Anna Zolkiewska |
Cell adhesion molecules and their role in cell growth and differentiation. |
Michal Zolkiewski |
Protein structure and function; protein folding, misfolding, and aggregation; AAA+ ATPases; molecular chaperones. |