Faculty

Faculty by research area

(See also faculty by name)

Bioenergetics and photosynthesis

 Robert Blankenship, Dewey Holten

Cardiac and blood

George Broze, Enrico Di Cera, Philip Majerus, Yoram Rudy, Frank Yin

Computational and theoretical

Nathan Baker, Anders Carlsson, Kathleen Hall, Sandor Kovacs, Jr., Garland Marshall, Rohit Pappu, Jay Ponder, Yoram Rudy, David Sept, Gary Stormo

Cytoskeleton and cell mechanics

Anders Carlsson, Elliot Elson, David Sept, Frank Yin

Drug design

Tom Ellenberger, Garland Marshall, David Sept, John-Stephen Taylor

Imaging

Joseph Ackerman,  Elliot Elson, Sandor Kovacs, Jr., James Miller, Jacob Schaefer, Younan Xia, Lan Yang

Ion channels

Jianmin Cui, Jim Huettner, Sandor Kovacs, Jr., Christopher Lingle, Joshua Maurer, Robert Mercer, Colin Nichols, Yoram Rudy, Paul Schlesinger, Joseph Henry Steinbach, Charles Zorumski

Mass spectrometry

Michael Gross

Mechanistic enzymology

Enrico Di Cera, Carl Frieden, Roberto Galletto, Gregory Grant, Timothy Lohman

Membranes

Nathan Baker, Jianmin Cui, Elliot Elson, Robert Mercer, Paul Schlesinger

Metals

Peter Chivers

Nanotechnology

Nathan Baker, Rohit Pappu, Paul Schlesinger, David Sept, Younan Xia, Lan Yang

NMR and MRI

Joseph Ackerman, Alex Evers, Carl Frieden, Kathleen Hall, Jacob Schaefer

Nucleic acids

Roberto Galletto, Kathleen Hall, Timothy Lohman, John-Stephen Taylor

Protein engineering

Enrico Di Cera, Jay Ponder

Protein folding and stability

Carl Frieden, Rohit Pappu

Protein-nucleic acid interactions

Roberto Galletto, Kathleen Hall, Timothy Lohman, Gary Stormo, Yan Mei Wang

Single molecule

Elliot Elson, Carl Frieden, Roberto Galletto, Timothy Lohman, Yan Mei Wang

Structure-function

Peter Chivers, Enrico Di Cera, Tom Ellenberger, Alex Evers, Gregory Grant

Structural

Enrico Di Cera, Tom Ellenberger, Alex Evers, Daved Fremont, Jacob Schaefer, Thomas Smith

Virology and immunology

 Daved Fremont, Thomas Smith

Faculty by name

(See also faculty by research area)

• Joseph Ackerman (biophysics; cancer; imaging; mathematical modeling; neurobiology)
• Nathan Baker (computational biology; biophysics; multiscale modeling; applied mathematics)
• Robert Blankenship (photosynthesis)
• George Broze (blood coagulation; atherosclerosis; biochemistry; kinetics; vascular biology)
• Anders Carlsson (actin; cytoskeleton; cell motility; cross-linking; transition metals)
• Peter Chivers (proteins; biochemistry; bacteriology; metals)
• Jianmin Cui (ion channels in physiology and disease, channel structure-function relationship, electrophysiology, molecular biology)
  
• Enrico Di Cera (blood coagulation; kinetics; protein engineering; protein structure; structure-function relations)
• Tom Ellenberger (structural biology; replication; DNA repair; chromatin)
• Elliot Elson (cytoskeleton; signal transduction; fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; tissue engineering; cell/tissue mechanics)
• Alex Evers (kinetics; protein structure; anesthetics; NMR; photolabeling)
• Daved Fremont (antigen presentation; endocytosis; immunology; structural biology; virology; protein crystallography)
• Carl Frieden (biophysics; protein structure and dynamics; protein folding; NMR; fluorescence methods)
• Roberto Galletto (mechanistic studies of DNA motor proteins; single Molecule Biochemistry)
  
• Gregory Grant (protein structure; protein function; allosteric regulation; enzymology; biochemistry)
• Michael Gross (antigen presentation; biochemistry; biophysics; mass spectrometry; protein-protein interaction; protein structure)
• Kathleen Hall (RNA; RNA binding proteins; NMR; thermodynamics; molecular dynamics)
• Dewey Holten (biophysics; photosynthesis)
• Jim Huettner (stem cells; differentiation; synapse biology; receptor; ion channel)
• Sandor Kovacs, Jr. (mathematical modeling; physiology; imaging; thermodynamics; biophysics)
• Christopher Lingle (ion channel; protein structure; neurobiology; physiology; cell signaling)
• Timothy Lohman (protein-DNA mechanisms and energetics; single strand binding (SSB) proteins; DNA motor proteins (helicases and translocases))
• Philip Majerus (blood coagulation; cell signaling; inositol; secondary messengers)
• Garland Marshall (computational biology; molecular modeling; protein structure; GPCR/G-protein; signal transduction)
• Joshua Maurer (neurobiology; ion channel; biochemistry; biophysics; biosensors)
• Robert Mercer (cell membrane; development; Na; K-ATPase; excitable tissue; cell volume)
• James Miller (imaging; biophysics; echocardiography; ischemia; nonlinear)
• Colin Nichols (ion channel; neurobiology; functional genomics; cell signaling; kinetics)
• Rohit Pappu (polymer physics of disordered proteins; protein aggregation and misfolding; statistical thermodynamics)
• Jay Ponder (molecular modeling; protein structure; computational chemistry; molecular dynamics simulation; protein engineering)
• Yoram Rudy (cardiac electrophysiology, modeling the cardiac system, cardiac imaging and mapping, cellular electrophysiology and communication in the heart)
  
• Jacob Schaefer (protein structure; imaging; NMR)
• Paul Schlesinger (apoptosis; ion channel; biophysics; physiology; endocytosis)
• David Sept (cytoskeleton; protein structure; computational biology; kinetics)
• Thomas Smith (structural biology; virology; biophysics; biochemistry; protein structure)
• Joseph Henry Steinbach (receptors; neurobiology; biophysics; pharmacology; synapse biology)
• Gary Stormo (computational biology; genome analysis; gene expression; mathematical modeling)
• John-Stephen Taylor (cancer; DNA; RNA; mutagenesis; drug design)
• Yan Mei Wang (single molecule biophysics)
• Younan Xia (nanotechnology, materials chemistry, and photonic devices)
• Lan Yang (biosensors)
  
• Frank Yin (biophysics; cytoskeleton; vascular biology)
• Charles Zorumski (synapse biology; ion channel; glutamate; GABA)