SHARON AMACHER (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Zebrafish development; Oscillating RNAs and the segmentation clock; Muscle development, patterning, and regeneration; Muscle-specific splicing
CHUCK BELL (Biochemistry)
Focus: Using x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM to understand proteins involved in DNA repair and recombination
AMANDA BIRD (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Sensing of metal elements by eukaryotes; regulatory roles of novel RNAs and small proteins
HELEN CHAMBERLIN (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Organogenesis and cell fate specification during development. Developmental regulation of transcription
SUSAN COLE (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Roles of fringe genes and Notch signaling during development. Analysis of cyclic mRNA expression during somitogenesis: linking the Notch pathway and the segmentation clock
Focus: Pattern formation and development of complex extracellular structures in plant cells
MARK P. FOSTER (Biochemistry)
Focus: Elucidation of structural and dynamic aspects of molecular recognition and assembly using a variety of biochemical and biophysical tools, with emphasis on NMR spectroscopy
VENKAT GOPALAN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Structure and mechanism of action of ribonuclease P, a catalytic ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex
PATRICE HAMEL (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Maturation of c-type cytochromes in organelles, redox components and heme delivery systems in yeast mitochondria and green alga plastids
PAUL HERMAN (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Mechanisms controlling eukaryotic cell growth and proliferation
ANITA HOPPER (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Intracellular trafficking of RNA and proteins; Nucleus organization; RNA processing
JAY HOLLICK (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Epigenetic mechanisms that generate and maintain heritable phenotypic variation
JANE JACKMAN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Mechanistic enzymology and genetic tools to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and functions of tRNA processing and modification enzymes
DMITRI KUDRYASHOV (Biochemistry)
Focus: Understanding how the cytoskeletal protein actin and actin binding proteins are involved in disease
JESSE KWIEK (Microbiology)
Focus: Leveraging the tools of virology, epidemiology, and pharmacology to better understand viral pathogenesis and the public health impact of infectious diseases, including the development of pan-antiviral therapeutics
THOMAS MAGLIERY (Biochemistry)
Focus: Four helix bundle protein Rop and several tumor suppressor proteins, stability defects; vivo, site-specific unnatural protein mutagenesis
KARIN MUSIER-FORSYTH (Biochemistry)
Focus: Chemical and biophysical approaches to answer fundamental questions focusing on nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) and proteins that are involved in translation of the genetic code and viral replication
STEPHEN OSMANI (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Cell Cycle Regulation and Development
HAY-OAK PARK (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Regulation of Cell growth and oriented cell division; oxidative stress response
MICHAEL POIRIER (Biochemistry)
Focus: Understanding how DNA within chromatin is transcribed, replicated and repaired
NATIVIDAD RUIZ (Microbiology)
Focus: Understanding glycolipid transport systems that are essential for the biogenesis of the bacterial cell envelope
GURAMRIT SINGH (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Control of post-transcriptional gene expression via dynamic ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes
DAVID SOMERS (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: Molecular and genetic analysis of the plant circadian system
MARCOS SOTOMAYOR (Biochemistry)
Focus: Structural Biology and Simulations of Proteins Involved in Mechanosensation
JIAN-QIU WU (Molecular Genetics)
Focus: cell division, cellular polarization, cytoskeleton, microscopy, fission yeast
DAMIEN WILBURN (Biochemistry)
Focus: Evolutionary and biochemical characterization of sperm-egg interactions that mediate species-specific fertilization using NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry proteomics, and other biophysical methods
DONGPING ZHONG (Biochemistry)
Focus: Understanding the nature of elementary processes in biological systems and relating dynamics and structures to function in real systems at the most fundamental level, using state-of-the-art femtosecond lasers and molecular biology methods