Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Training Program
Faculty

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Paula  Q.  Barrett,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Pharmacology

Research Interests:
Regulation of low-voltage activated T-type Ca2+ channel activity by kinases and heterotrimeric G-proteins and their roles in physiological responses.
Douglas  A.  Bayliss,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor and Chair of Pharmacology

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Neuromodulation in Central Neurons
Stefan  Bekiranov,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Physical Modeling of Microarray Hybridization; Analysis of Genomic Tiling Array Data; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Regulatory Networks
Jay  C.  Brown,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Structure and Assembly of the Herpes Simplex Virus Capsid.
Robert  G.  Bryant,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biophysics
John  H.  Bushweller,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Structural and Functional Basis for Oncogenesis; Targeted Drug Development; Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins
David  S.  Cafiso,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms for Membrane Transport and Cell Signaling
J.  David  Castle,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Regulation of Membrane Recycling and Protein Secretion
Linda  Columbus,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests:
Biophysical Chemistry: Membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics
Zygmunt  S.  Derewenda,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Intracellular Signal Transduction; X-ray Crystallography
Edward  H.  Egelman,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Structure and Function of Macromolecular Complexes Using Electron Microscopy
Erik  J.  Fernandez,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests:
Purification of biological molecules, engineered biointerfaces, molecular aspects of Alzheimer's disease.
William  H.  Guilford,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanics of Muscle Contraction in Cardiovascular Disease
Jeffrey  R.  Holt,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Research Interests:
Sensory signaling in hair cells of the auditory and vestibular systems.
Alan  F. "Rick"  Horwitz,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Cell Biology

Research Interests:
Synapse Formation and Cell Migration in Normal and Pathobiology-Adhesion, Signaling, Imaging and Proteomics
Sepideh  Khorasanizadeh,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Biophysical Characterization of Epigenetic Signaling
Michael  B.  Lawrence,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests:
Vascular and Molecular Engineering
Ian  G.  Macara,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests:
Mammary Gland Morphogenesis, Stem Cells, and Breast Cancer; Mechanisms of Cell Polarity; Polarity Proteins as Tumor Suppressors; Protein Methylation.
Wladek  Minor,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Structure-Function Relationships in Proteins; Structural Genomics; Bioinformatics
Joseph  Randall  Moorman,  M.D.    [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine

Research Interests:
Mathematical Analysis of Cardiac Rhythms
Robert  K.  Nakamoto,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Structure-Function of Active Transporters
William  R.  Pearson,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Research Interests:
Glutathione S-Transferases; Protein Evolution; Computational Biology
Zhifeng  Shao,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Molecular Imaging and Single Molecule Biophysics
Avril  V.  Somlyo,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
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.
Lukas  K.  Tamm,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Biomembrane Structure and Function; Membrane Fusion in Viral Cell Entry and Exocytosis; Lipid-Protein Interactions
Michael  C.  Wiener,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Structural biology (esp. crystallography) of integral membrane proteins; TonB-dependent active transport across the bacterial outer membrane; cancer-related membrane proteins; crystallization methods development
Mark  Yeager,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Andrew P. Somlyo Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Research Interests:
Cardiac Gap Junction Membrane Channels / Integrins Water Channels / Rotavirus / Reovirus / Retrovirus