Primary Faculty
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Francisco Asturias, PhD
Characterization large macromolecular complexes
David Bentley, PhD
Messenger RNA Production by RNA polymerase II
Julia Promisel Cooper, PhD
An expanded view of telomeres and their roles in safeguarding genome stability
Angelo D'Alessandro, PhD
Cancer metabolism and (red) blood cell biology
James DeGregori, PhD
Cancer: understanding its evolution and targeting its dependencies
Elan Eisenmesser, PhD
Viral protein/host protein interactions and enzyme motions
Kirk Hansen, PhD
Quantitative and functional proteomics, extracellular matrix processing and organization
Lydia Heasley, PhD
Molecular causes and phenotypic consequences of the broadly defined family of genomic features known as structural variations (SVs)
Jay Hesselberth, PhD
Nucleic acid repair
Sujatha Jagannathan, PhD
mRNA surveillance in health and disease
Aaron Johnson, PhD
Mechanisms of chromatin-mediated gene silencing
Allison McClure, PhD
Cell cycle regulation of DNA replication
Neelanjan Mukherjee, PhD
The dynamics of RNA regulatory networks
Catherine Musselman, PhD
Structural mechanisms of chromatin signaling
Joe Nassour, PhD
Telomere Functions in Aging and Cancer
David Pollock, PhD
Protein structure, function and sequence evolution
Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD
In vivo nucleosome structure and dynamics
Olivia Rissland, PhD
RNA stability and translation
Matthew Taliaferro, PhD
Subcellular RNA localization
Beat Vögeli, PhD
NMR spectroscopy for the elucidation of conformation and communication networks within and between proteins and nucleic acids
Ning Zhao, PhD
Developing technologies that enable tracking the full life cycle of proteins
Rui Zhao, PhD
Molecular mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing; drug design targeting transcriptional complex in breast cancer
Hongjin Zheng, PhD
Structural biology of membrane proteins and protein complexes