Faculty who are available to serve as research and independent advisors are listed below. Research interests are briefly indicated.

THOMAS O. BALDWIN, Professor and Department Head, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1971, University of Texas, Austin) Biological recognition, protein folding, protein assembly

VAHE BANDARIAN, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1999, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Biosynthesis of unusual bacterial secondary metabolites, and probing the mechanisms of the enzymes in these biosynthetic pathways

* MICHAEL F. BROWN, Professor, Chemistry (Ph.D., 1975, University of California, Santa Cruz) Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; membrane proteins; chemistry of membranes and liquid crystals; molecular basis of vision

LOUISE M. CANFIELD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1976, Vanderbilt University) Metabolism and biological function of carotenoids (Independent Study Only)

 MATTHEW H. J. CORDES, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1994, Yale University) Structural evolution and conformational change in proteins

 MICHAEL A. CUSANOVICH, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Chemistry (Ph.D., 1967, University of California, San Diego) Protein structure and function, biological electron transfer, sensor proteins, bacterial evolution

CAROL L. DIECKMANN, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1976, Vanderbilt University) Studies of nuclear genes regulating mitochondrial expression in yeast; mitochrondrial mRNA stability and translation; eyespot assembly in Chlamydomonas

 * EUGENE W. GERNER, Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy; Director, Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in GI Cancer (Ph.D., 1974, University of Texas, Houston) Molecular events in carcinogenesis; cancer chemoprevention; apoptosis; polyamines

* ROBERT J. GILLIES, Professor of Biochemistry, Physiology and Radiology (Ph.D., 1979, University of California, Davis) pH regulation, lipid metabolism and cancer; spectroscopic methods (fluorescence and NMR); cell and molecular physiology

* DARREL E. GOLL, Professor of Nutritional Sciences (Ph.D., 1962, Wisconsin) Cell motility and cytoskeleton; role of the Ca +-dependent proteinase system in signal transduction and cell proliferation

WILLIAM J. GRIMES, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, (Ph.D., 1969, University of Colorado) Immune response and cancer; designing peptides that can be used in cancer immunotherapy

* JENNIFER D. HALL, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Ph.D., 1974, Yale University) Replication and DNA repair mechanisms in eukaryotic cells; herpes simplex molecular biology; protein-nucleic acid interactions

 * ERIK J. HENRIKSEN, Associate Professor of Physiology (Ph.D., 1987, University of Arizona) Regulation of the glucose transport system in normal and insulin-resistant skeletal and cardiac muscle by endocrine factors, exercise, aging and development, and pharmaceutical interventions

NANCY C. HORTON, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1994, University of Pennsylvania) Protein-nucleic acid recognition, enzymology, X-ray crystallography, kinetics, protein dynamics, DNA repair

* VICTOR J. HRUBY, Regents Professor, Chemistry (Ph.D., 1965, Cornell University)Design, synthesis, and structure of polypeptides and proteins; hormone and neurotransmitter chemistry; brain chemistry; NMR as a structural tool for studying polypeptides; relation of conformation and topography to biological activity; transduction; molecular recognition; combinatorial chemistry; the neurochemistry of behavior.

JOHN W. LITTLE, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (Ph.D., 1967, Stanford University) Mechanisms of gene regulation; behavior and evolution of gene regulatory circuits

MEGAN M. MCEVOY, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1997, University of Oregon) Structure/function of protein complexes; NMR; Structure and function of proteins involved in asymmetric cell division in Drosophila neuroblasts

ROGER L. MIESFELD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1983, State University of New York at Stony Brook) Organization and expression of steroid-regulated gene networks; molecular determinants of cell-specific gene expression; transcriptional control of steroid-regulated thymocyte apoptosis

OSAMU MIYASHITA, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D. 2000, Kyoto University ) Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Protein Electron Transfer, Protein Allostery

WILLIAM R. MONTFORT, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1985, University of Texas, Austin) Protein structure, function, and inhibition

* DAVID W. MOUNT, Professor, Molecular and Medical Microbiology (Ph.D., 1965, Toronto) Molecular genetics; DNA repair in plants; computer analysis of sequences; genetic analysis of rare plants

HOWARD OCHMAN, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1984, University of Rochester) Molecular evolution of bacterial genes and genomes; bacterial pathogenesis

* ROY R. PARKER, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology (Ph.D., 1985, University of California, San Francisco) mRNA decay in yeast, emphasizing molecular genetics to understand both the mechanisms and regulation of mRNA turnover

FLORENCE TAMA, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D. 2000, Paul Sabatier University) Computational Structural Biology, Function and Dynamics of Macromolecular Assemblies, Multi-Scale Modeling, Methods Development to Interpret Experimental Data

MARC E. TISCHLER, Professor of Biochemistry, and Physiology and Medicine Associate Head, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Director, Minority Access to Research Careers program (Ph.D. 1977, University of Pennsylvania) (Independent Study Only)

TSU-SHUEN TSAO, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., Ph.D. 1997, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York) Hormonal regulation of signal transduction pathways in obesity and diabetes.

ELIZABETH VIERLING, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1982, University of Chicago) Biochemistry and function of molecular chaperones, plant molecular biology

* FRANCIS ANN WALKER, Regents Professor, Chemistry (Ph.D., 1966, Brown University) Bioinorganic chemistry of hemes and heme proteins; electrochemistry, NMR and EPR spectroscopy

 VICKI H. WYSOCKI, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (Ph.D., 1987, Purdue University) Bioanalytical mass spectrometry; peptide and protein sequencing; ion-surface collisions for surface characterization of organic thin films

*These individuals have joint appointments with the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department.

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