Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Training Program
Faculty
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Paula
Q.
Barrett,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Pharmacology Regulation of low-voltage activated T-type Ca2+ channel activity by kinases and heterotrimeric G-proteins and their roles in physiological responses. |
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Douglas
A.
Bayliss,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor and Chair of Pharmacology Mechanisms of Neuromodulation in Central Neurons |
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Stefan
Bekiranov,
Ph.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks |
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Jay
C.
Brown,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology Structure and Assembly of the Herpes Simplex Virus Capsid. |
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Robert
G.
Bryant,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Chemistry Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biophysics |
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John
H.
Bushweller,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Structural and Functional Basis for Oncogenesis; Targeted Drug Development; Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins |
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David
S.
Cafiso,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Chemistry Molecular Mechanisms for Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling |
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J.
David
Castle,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology Regulation of Membrane Recycling and Protein Secretion |
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Linda
Columbus,
Ph.D. [more information]
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Biophysical Chemistry: Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics |
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Zygmunt
S.
Derewenda,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Mechanisms of Intracellular Signal Transduction; X-ray Crystallography |
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Edward
H.
Egelman,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy |
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Erik
J.
Fernandez,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Chemical Engineering Purification of biological molecules, engineered biointerfaces, molecular aspects of Alzheimer's disease. |
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William
H.
Guilford,
Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Molecular Mechanics of Muscle Contraction in Cardiovascular Disease |
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Jeffrey
R.
Holt,
Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Neuroscience Sensory signaling in hair cells of the auditory and vestibular systems. |
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Alan
F. "Rick"
Horwitz,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology Synapse Formation and Cell Migration in Normal and Pathobiology-Adhesion, Signaling, Imaging and Proteomics |
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Sepideh
Khorasanizadeh,
Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Biophysical Characterization of Epigenetic Signaling |
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Michael
B.
Lawrence,
Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Vascular and Molecular Engineering |
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Ian
G.
Macara,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Microbiology Mammary Gland Morphogenesis, Stem Cells, and Breast Cancer; Mechanisms of Cell Polarity; Polarity Proteins as Tumor Suppressors; Protein Methylation. |
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Wladek
Minor,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Structure-Function Relationships in Proteins; Structural Genomics; Bioinformatics |
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Joseph
Randall
Moorman,
M.D. [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Mathematical Analysis of Cardiac Rhythms |
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Robert
K.
Nakamoto,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Structure-Function of Active Transporters |
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William
R.
Pearson,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Glutathione S-Transferases; Protein Evolution; Computational Biology |
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Zhifeng
Shao,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Molecular Imaging and Single Molecule Biophysics |
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Avril
V.
Somlyo,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Signaling pathways that regulate contractility in smooth muscle tissues and migrating cells in normal and disease states such an coronary artery disease, asthma and hypertension. Structure function studies of the intercalated disk in the heart. |
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Lukas
K.
Tamm,
Ph.D. [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Biomembrane Structure and Function; Membrane Fusion in Viral Cell Entry and Exocytosis; Lipid-Protein Interactions |
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Michael
C.
Wiener,
Ph.D. [more information]
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Structural biology (esp. crystallography) of integral membrane proteins; TonB-dependent active transport across the bacterial outer membrane; cancer-related membrane proteins; crystallization methods development |
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Mark
Yeager,
M.D., Ph.D. [more information]
Andrew P. Somlyo Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Cardiac Gap Junction Membrane Channels / Integrins Water Channels / Rotavirus / Reovirus / Retrovirus |
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