Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Program

Faculty

Irina Besonova, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, Ph.D., University of Toronto. Structural and biochemical characterization of proteins and protein complexes of p53 pathway, especially, proteins responsible for maintenance of an appropriate level of p53 in the cell.

Gordon G. Carmichael, Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology, B.S., Duke University, Ph.D., Harvard University. Regulation of viral gene expression and function.

John H. Carson, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.A., Reed College, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. RNA transport in cells of the nervous system.

Ann E. Cowan, Associate Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology; Deputy Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology; B.Sc., Queen's University, M.S., Yale University, Ph.D., University of Colorado. Plasma membrane proteins in sperm.

Asis K. Das, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. University of Calcutta. Genetics, genomics and mechanisms of bacterial adaptive response; genetic control of bacteriophage lysogeny and lysis; and non-coding RNAs in prokaryotic development.

Kimberly Dodge-Kafka, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology/Center for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research; Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, 1999. Molecular mechanism of signaling pathways in the heart.

Betty Eipper, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, B.S., M.S., Brown University, Ph.D., Harvard University. Biosynthesis and secretion of peptides by neurons and endocrine cells.

Shlomo Eisenberg, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.S., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Ph.D., McGill University. Biochemistry of DNA replication in yeast.

Richard Everson, Deputy Director for Cancer Prevention and Control, Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, M.D. University of Rochester, M.P.H. in Epidemiology University of North Carolina. Conducting large-scale cancer genomic clinical research and population studies by developing a state-wide biorepository of tumor tissue with analysis by high-throughput arrays and next generation sequencing.

Michael Gryk, Associate Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology. B.S., M.S., University of Connecticut, Ph.D., Stanford University. Three dimensional structure and function of proteins involved in DNA repair.

Arthur Günzl, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis. Transcription and antigenic variation in the mammalian parasite Trypanosoma brucei.

Bing Hao, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, Ph.D., Ohio State University. Understanding how the cell cycle is regulated by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis using x-ray crystallography as a primary tool.

Christopher Heinen, Assistant Professor of Medicine, B.Sc., Northwestern University, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Biochemical and cellular defects of the DNA mismatch repair pathway during tumorigenesis.

Jeffrey Hoch, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, Director of Gregory P. Mullen NMR Structural Biology Facility; Ph.D., Harvard. Biophysical chemistry of proteins.

Stephen M. King, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.Sc., University of Kent, Ph.D., University of London. Structure and function of microtubule-based molecular motor proteins.

Lawrence A. Klobutcher, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.S., Loyola University (Chicago), Ph.D., Yale University. DNA rearrangement in eukaryotic cells, phagocytosis.

Dmitry Korzhnev, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of structure and dynamics of proteins and their assemblies; multi-protein complexes involved in DNA replication and repair; protein folding.

Mark Maciejewski, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology. Ph.D., Ohio State University. Utilizing NMR to characterize the three dimensional structure, function and dynamics of proteins from a wide range of important biological systems.

Mary Jane Osborn, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., University of Washington (Seattle). Biogenesis of the outer membrane of Salmonella.

Juris Ozols, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.S., Ph.D., University of Washington (Seattle). Isolation and primary structure of membraneous proteins.

Lawrence I. Rothfield, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, A.B., Cornell University, M.D., New York University. Cell and molecular biological studies of bacterial cell division and the bacterial cytoskeleton.

Peter Setlow, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.A., Swarthmore College, Ph.D., Brandeis University. Biochemistry of bacterial spore germination.

Aziz Taghbalout, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, PhD, Hassan II University. Understanding the molecular organization of the RNA degradosome, a multiprotein complex that plays essential role in the normal RNA degradation and processing in Escherichia coli.

Jennifer Tirnauer, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine; M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine. Role of the microtubule cytoskeleton in cancer biology; molecular mechanisms of microtubule regulation.

Sandra K. Weller, Professor of Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, B.S., Stanford University, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Molecular genetics and biochemistry of herpes simplex virus DNA replication.

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