Aleksei
Aksimentiev [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Modeling synthetic nanobiodevices; microscopic mechanics of
celluar machinery
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Thomas J. Anastasio [Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Creating abstract, multilevel, computational models of neurobiological processes in health and disease |  |
Andrew S. Belmont [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Chromatin structure and nuclear architecture |  |
Yann R. Chemla [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Experimental biological physics, high-resolution optical tweezers,
molecular motors, nucleic acid and protein translocases |  |
Charles L. Cox [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Functional organization and neuromodulation of thalamocorticalcircuits,
neuronal excitability, synaptic physiology and plasticity, epilepsy |  |
Robert B. Gennis [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms of redox-driven ion pumps; structure and
function of heme-copper oxidases and other membrane-bound metalloproteins |  |
John A. Gerlt [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and functional genomics:
the importance of chemistry in the evolution of new enzymatic activities |  |
Steve Granick [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Physics of active and passive motion in biomolecular systems;
development of new bio-imaging techniques; phospholipid assemblies: vesicles,
supported bilayers, and liposomes |  |
Claudio F. Grosman [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels |  |
Martin Gruebele [Info] [Lab Web Site]
Fast protein folding dynamics
studied by laser-induced temperature jump experiments and modeling |  |
Taekjip Ha [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Developing and using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy
and nano-mechanical manipulation tools for molecular biophysics research |  |
Paul J. Hergenrother [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Computational and structure-based design of enzyme inhibitors;
explorations of small molecule-RNA binding |  |
Raven H. Huang [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Functional and structural characterization of protein enzymes
involved in RNA modification and editing, site-specific RNA cleavage, and RNA
repair |  |
Hyun Joon Kong [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Design of synthetic extracellular matrix; FRET analysis of
cell-ECM interaction; FRET analysis of biomolecular interaction; vascular/bone
tissue engineering
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Mary
L. Kraft [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Development of chemical imaging techniques to visualize the
distribution of different components in cell membranes, and to understand how
cell membrane structure and composition relates to disease progression |  |
Thomas E. Kuhlman [Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Quantitative biology of gene regulation, intracellular diffusion of proteins, and the biophysical consequences of genome organization |
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Deborah E. Leckband [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular force movements; structure; proteins; electrostatics;
biomembranes |  |
Yi Lu [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Metalloprotein design and engineering; new catalytic DNA and
RNA as anti-viral pharmaceutical agents or as metal biosensors |  |
Zaida Luthey-Schulten [Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Computational
structural biology |  |
Jian Ma [Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Computational
genomics and cancer genomics |
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Susan A. Martinis [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and group
I intron splicing; fidelity of protein synthesis |  |
Sua Myong [Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Protein-Nucleic Acid interactions involved in human diseases; single molecule fluorescence detection |
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Satish K. Nair [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
X-ray crystallography, enzymology, DNA replication |  |
Mark E. Nelson [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Neural information processing, neural basis of behavior, adaptive
signal processing in the electric sense |  |
Eric Oldfield [Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Protein structure determination; design of novel drug molecules to kill parasitic
protozoa causing malaria, sleeping sickness & opportunistic infections of
immunocompromised individuals |  |
Gary J. Olsen [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
The functions, evolutionary histories and structures of genes
and proteins in Archaea |  |
Chad M. Rienstra [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR), including the
development of new pulse sequence methodology and instrumentation, and application
to studies of protein structure and dynamics |  |
Charles
M. Schroeder III [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Development of novel tools for single cell and biomolecule analysis,
including, bio-inspired materials, hydrodynamic trapping, gene network dynamics,
and synthetic biology
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Klaus J. Schulten [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living
cell; development of new algorithms and efficient computing tools for structural
biology |  |
Paul R. Selvin [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Use of novel forms of fluorescence, at both single-molecule
and ensemble levels, to study actomyosin, ion channels, and other biomolecules |  |
Scott K. Silverman [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
DNA as a catalyst (enzyme) |  |
Saurabh Sinha [Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Computational models of gene regulatory sequences and their evolution |
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Stephen G. Sligar [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Structure-function relationships in protein and nucleic acid
systems |  |
Emad Tajkhorshid [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Computational studies of permeation of molecules across biological
membrane; simulation of membrane proteins and pure lipid bilayers; understanding
the structure-function relationship and selectivity of membrane channels and transporters |  |
Colin A. Wraight [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Protein structure & function; electron and proton transfer
in proteins; photosynthetic energy transduction; molecular engineering of cofactor-protein
interactions |  |
Huimin Zhao [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Directed evolution of enzymes and pathways, proteomics |
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Steven C. Zimmerman [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Discovery of drugs that target DNA and RNA, development of synthetic organic and polymer-based drug and cell delivery agents, and new fluorescent probes | |
Emeritus Faculty |
Antony R. Crofts [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms in photosynthetic energy conversion |
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Rhanor Gillette [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Neurophysiology and computational modeling: coordination of
sensation, internal state & experience through ion channel, cellular and circuitry
mechanisms in decision-making |
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Govindjee [Info]
Lifetime of
fluorescence imaging; oxygenic photosynthesis; history of photosynthesis research;
and photosynthesis education |  |
Eric G. Jakobsson [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Computational studies of ion channels and biological membranes,
using simulation, bioinformatics, and statistical mechanical analysis |
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