Preceptors

Wayne Anderson, Ph.D.

IGP

Structural genomics, protein-ligand interactions, and enzyme structure and function.

Douglas Freymann, Ph.D.

IGP

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GTPase structure & function, GTPase-mediated assembly of the SRP targeting complex, ultra-high resolution protein structure-function studies

Adrian Gross, Ph.D.

IGP

Ion Channels: structure and function of membrane proteins

Xiaolin He, Ph.D.

IGP

Structural Cancer Biology and Neurobiology; Cell-surface Receptors in Development and Cancer

Brian Hoffman, Ph.D.

Chemistry, IBiS

The study of interprotein electron transfer, ENDOR of metalloenzymes

Robert Lamb, Ph.D.

IBiS

Molecular structure and mechanism of replication of the influenza virus and the paramyxovirus SV5

John Marko, Ph.D.
John Marko, Ph.D.

IBiS, Physics

Protein-DNA interactions; chromosome structure and dynamics

Andreas Matouschek, Ph.D.

IBiS

Protein unfolding in the cell

 

Thomas Meade, Ph.D.

Chemistry, IBiS, NUIN

Inorganic coordination chemistry for the study of molecular imaging of in vivo gene expression and intracellular messengers, transition metal enzyme inhibitors, and electronic biosensors

Alfonso Mondragón, Ph.D
Alfonso Mondragón, Ph.D
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IBiS

Crystallographic elucidation of structure-function relationships of protein-nucleic acid interactions; spectrin structure/function

Richard Morimoto, Ph.D.
Richard Morimoto, Ph.D.

IBiS

The heat-shock response and the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of molecular chaperones


Adilson Motter, Ph.D.

Physics

System-level modeling of biological network dynamics.


Thomas O'Halloran, Ph.D.

Chemistry, IBiS

Intracellular transition metal receptors (metalloregulatory proteins)

Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Ph.D.

Materials Science and Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Statistical Mechanics of nucleic acids, nucleic acids-protein structures and membrane-protein interactions

Heather Pinkett

IBiS

Structure and function of ABC transporters, Molecular mechanism of membrane transport

Lawrence Pinto, Ph.D.

NUIN

Biophysics and genetics of neuronal processes; function of viral ion channel proteins

 

Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

IBiS

Transcription factor interactions in eukaryotic gene regulation; biological NMR spectroscopy

 

Indira Raman

Indira Raman, Ph.D.

NBP

Ion channel biophysics, neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission

Sarah Rice, Ph.D.
Sarah Rice, Ph.D.

IGP

Functions of Molecular Motor Tails

Amy Rosenzweig, Ph.D.

IBiS, Chemistry

Structure and function in the catalytic metal centers of large and complex proteins

Richard Silverman, Ph.D.

Chemistry, IBiS

Molecular mechanism of action, rational design, and synthesis of medicinal agents

 

Erik Sontheimer, Ph.D.
Erik Sontheimer, Ph.D.

IBiS

Function, structure and catalytic mechanisms of RNAs and RNPs through study of pre-mRNA splicing

Olke Uhlenbeck, Ph.D.

IBiS, Chemistry

Rna Biochemistry and MS2 Phage Coat Protein - RNA Interaction

 

Jonathan Widom, Ph.D.

IBiS, Chemistry

Structure and function of chromosomes; molecular mechanisms of gene regulation; structural biology and biophysical chemistry of nucleic acids and protein-nucleic acid complexes.