Department of Biochemistry

Expertise: Regulation of Protein Phosphatases and the Evolution of Cellular Signaling

Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems

Expertise: Macromolecules in suspension. Physics of protein crystallization. Microfluidics.

Expertise: Single-molecule Biochemistry and Biophysics. Transcription and RNA processing. Cytoskeletal networks and regulation.

Expertise: Cytoskeletal mechanisms controlling cell morphogenesis

Expertise: Antimicrobial design; targeted protein degradation; TSC2 activators; enzyme structure-function studies.

Expertise: Uncovering fundamental molecular mechanisms of virus translocation across biological membranes

Expertise: Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism

Expertise:  Mechanisms for control of mitochondrial protein activity, quality, and lifespan. 

Expertise: Dynamics of enzymes. Magnetic resonance methods.

Expertise: Condensed matter theory and quantitative biology; application of condensed matter physics models to problems in molecular and cell biology such as regulation of gene expression and chromosome structure.

Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry

Expertise: mRNA translation in cellular differentiation and disease

Expertise: Genetics and molecular biology of bacteria and yeast.

Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors.

Expertise: Mapping the functional repertoire of (bio)inorganic systems and protein metallocofactors; paradigms of (bio)catalysts relevant to the human health and environment.

Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development.

Expertise: Biological redox enzymes structure and mechanism

Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons.

Expertise: Self-assembly at the colloidal length scale

Expertise: Solid-state NMR and structure determination of complex materials, including fuel-cell membranes, semicrystalline polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, natural organic matter, and thermoelectrics; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics.

Expertise: Mechanisms of protein folding in the cell

Expertise: Evolution, structure, and function of macromolecular complexes

Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.