The Biochemistry faculty has a wide range of research interests from cell biology to molecular biophysics. Primary faculty have their main affiliation with the Department of Biochemistry and are based within the department. This includes faculty members in the Center for RNA Science and Therapeutics. Secondary faculty have their main affiliation with other departments or centers. Students can thus work in virtually any field in current biomedical research.
Secondary Faculty
| Faculty Member | Area of Research |
|---|---|
| Kristian Baker | Mechanisms of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. |
| Nathan Berger | PolyADP-ribose metabolism in DNA repair and replication. |
| Robert Bonomo | β-lactamases and antibiotic resistance. |
| Henri Brunengraber | Nutritional Biochemistry. |
| David Buchner | Epigenetics, gene expression, obesity and diabetes, insulin signaling, glucose. |
| Vincent Hascall | Structure, function and metabolism of proteoglycans and hyaluronan in connective tissues. |
| Faramarz Ismail-Beigi | Diabetes, thyroid disease. |
| Jonathan Karn | HIV, AIDS, transcription, chromatin, retroviral vectors. |
| Anton Komar | Protein synthesis, protein folding and translational control of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. |
| Donal Luse | Eukaryotic gene transcription and RNA polymerase. |
| Vincent Monnier | Biochemistry of aging. |
| Krisztina Papp-Wallace | β-lactamases and antibiotic resistance. |
| Paul Park | Mechanism of action of rhodopsin and other G protein-coupled receptors. |
| Jun Qin | Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy, signal transduction. |
| Parameswaran Ramakrishnan | Regulation of signal transduction in health and disease: autoimmune diabetes, inflammatory diseases and cancer. |
| Ganes Sen | Mammalian gene expression anantiotensin-converting enzyme and interferon. |
| Robert Silverman | Role of the OAS-RNase L pathway in antiviral innate immunity and cancer. |
| Marion J. Skalweit | Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. |
| Jonathan Stamler | Redox-based cellular regulation and signal transduction, and in particular the role of protein S-nitrosylation. |
| Derek Taylor | Structure and molecular mechanisms of macromolecular machines involved in DNA maintenance and RNA maturation and biogenesis. |
| Saba Valadkhan | Role of the mammalian long non-coding RNAs in neurogenesis and cancer. |
| Martina Veigl | DNA repair, mutation analysis in bacterial and mammalian gene targets, mutagenic effects of nucleotide pool imbalance, colon cancer, genetic susceptibility, environmental mutagens. |
| Jordan Winter | Adaptation of pancreatic cancer cells to a nutrient deprived microenvironment and other forms of cancer-associated stress |