Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology (BBSB)
*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.

Jeffrey Abramson
Membrane Protein Structure and Function

Anne Andrews
Serotonin neurotransmitter system and complex behaviors

Amjad Askary*
Lineage and cell fate specification in the mammalian retina

Keriann Backus*
Chemical tools to manipulate the adaptive immune response

Ambre Bertholet*
controlling mitochondrial energy distribution to combat pathologies associated with impaired mitochondrial function

Gal Bitan
Development of therapeutic and diagnostic tools for proteins aggregation diseases

Douglas Black*
Regulation of gene expression through pre-mRNA splicing

Manish Butte
T cell activation and tolerance; genetic immunodeficiency and autoimmunity

Samson Chow
Molecular mechanisms of viral integration into host DNA

Heather Christofk*
Signaling pathways and metabolism in stem cells and cancers

Robert Clubb*
Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis

Stuart Conway
Developing small molecules that modulate cancer-relevant epigenetic targets

Rachelle Crosbie*
Cell-matrix interactions in neuromuscular disease

David Eisenberg*
Protein Structure, folding and design

Kym Faull
Mass spectrometry, metabolomics and proteomics

Juli Feigon
Nucleic acid structure and function

Samuel French
Proteomic study of liver cancer development

William Gelbart*
Physical aspects of viral infectivity and gene delivery systems

Ben Glasgow
Structure and function of lipid carrier proteins in tears

Tamir Gonen*
Structures and functions of membrane proteins involved in homeostasis using cryoEM

Feng Guo*
RNA-targeting drug development

Zhefeng Guo
Structure and fibrillization mechanisms of amyloid fibrils

Kent Hill*
Motility and Signaling Functions of the Trypanosome Cilium

Kendall Houk*
Computational investigation of chemical and biological reactions

Jing Huang*
Structure and function of protein networks in the cell

Wayne Hubbell
Protein structure and dynamics using EPR spectroscopy

Lin Jiang*
Computational structural biology and drug design for protein aggregation diseases

Tracy Johnson*
Pre-messenger RNA splicing and processing; chromatin modification

Carla Koehler*
Mitochondrial biogenesis- protein translocation into mitochondria

Siavash Kurdistani*
Epigenetics in biology and disease

Raphael Levine
Theoretical systems biology

Joseph Loo*
Studying protein expression and structure by proteomics and mass spec.

Daniel Low
Modeling of human breathing motion, radiation therapy

Megan McEvoy
Mechanisms of bacterial metal ion handling systems

Mayank Mehta
Neural mechanisms of space-time perception using virtual reality and computational modeling

Riccardo Olcese
Molecular physiology of voltage dependent ion channels

Gregory Payne
Mechanisms of intracellular protein traffic and endocytosis

Kathrin Plath*
Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer

Margot Quinlan*
Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton

Jian Yu Rao
Develop tools for cancer screening and early detection

Jose Rodriguez
Atomic analysis of protein nano-assemblies

Amy Rowat
Physical properties, structure and function of cells and the nucleus

Saman Sadeghi
Radiofluorination of bioactive molecules

Hui Sun
Targeting new classes of membrane receptors to develop novel therapeutics

Hung Ton-That*
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenicity

Gabriel Travis*
Biochemistry of vertebrate photoreceptors

Julio Vergara
Excitation-contraction coupling in mammalian muscle

Wei Wang
Bioinformatics and computational biology

Shimon Weiss
Single molecule biophysics; macromolecular interactions

James Wohlschlegel
Dissecting Ubiquitin-regulated Signaling Networks

Todd Yeates*
Structural, computational, and synthetic biology

Stephen Young*
Pathogenesis of hypertriglyceridemia and diseases of the nuclear lamina

Jie Zheng*
Therapeutic development in ophthalmology and Wnt signaling pathways

Hong Zhou*
CryoEM of membrane proteins, protein-nucleic acid complexes and microbes