Thomas J. Anastasio [Info]
[Lab Web
Site]
Creating computational models that provide new insights into neurophysiological
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Anne M. Baranger [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms of affinity and specificity in RNA-protein
complexes, design of RNA-binding proteins, peptides, and small molecules,
control of RNA function
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Andrew S. Belmont [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Chromatin structure and nuclear architecture |
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Philip M. Best [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Ion channel function and regulation; molecular mechanisms of muscle
activation |
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Yann R. Chemla [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Experimental biological physics, high-resolution optical tweezers,
molecular motors, nucleic acid and protein translocases |
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Robert M. Clegg [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Fluorescence dynamics, laser imaging |
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Charles L. Cox [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Functional organization and neuromodulation of thalamocorticalcircuits,
neuronal excitability, synaptic physiology and plasticity, epilepsy
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Antony R. Crofts [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms in photosynthetic energy conversion |
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M. Joan Dawson [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Ion channel function and regulation; molecular mechanisms of muscle
activation |
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Albert S. Feng [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Neural mechanisms underlying sound pattern recognition, sound localization,
and coherent sound perception in complex auditory scenes |
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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.
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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
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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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Ido Golding [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Systems Biology: The study of intracellular dynamics with single-event
resolution |
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Claudio F. Grosman [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels. |
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Martin Gruebele [Info] [faculty/mgweb/"
target="_blank">Lab Web Site]
Fast protein folding dynamics studied by laser-induced temperature
jump experiments and modeling. |
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Taekjip Ha [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
Developing and using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and
nano-mechanical manipulation tools for molecular biophysics research. |
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Paul J. Hergenrother
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Computational and structure-based design of enzyme inhibitors; explorations of small molecule-RNA binding.
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Raven H. Huang
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Mechanistic and structural studies of enzymes involved in RNA modifications, and protein toxins involved in site-specific RNA cleavages; design and engineering of small proteins or organic ligands that are useful against certain lethal bacteria or human diseases.
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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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Neil L. Kelleher
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Changes in the mass of proteins are translated into enzyme functional/mechanistic insight and discovery of new post-translational modifications.
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Deborah E. Leckband
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Molecular force movements; structure; proteins; electrostatics; biomembranes
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Zhi-Pei Liang
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Magnetic resonance imaging - functional brain imaging; contrained spectroscopic imaging; generalized-series imaging; super-resolution imaging with a priori contraints
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Yi Lu
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Metalloprotein design and engineering; new catalytic DNA and RNA as anti-viral pharmaceutical agents or as metal biosensors
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Zaida Luthey-Schulten
[Info]
[Lab WebSite]
Computational structural biology
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Todd J. Martinez
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Quantum mechanics in biology, including bond-breaking and photoactive proteins.
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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.
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Satish K. Nair
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
X-ray crystallography, enzymology, DNA replication
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Mark E. Nelson
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Neural information processing, neural basis of behavior, adaptive signal processing in the electric sense
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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.
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Gary J. Olsen
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
The functions, evolutionary histories and structures of genes and proteins in Archaea
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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.
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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
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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.
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Scott K. Silverman [Info] [Lab
Web Site]
DNA as an enzyme; DNA as a nanoscale structural constraint; RNA folding and catalysis; allosteric nucleic acid enzymes as sensors
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Stephen G. Sligar
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Structure-function relationships in protein and nucleic acid systems
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Maria Spies
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Biochemical mechanisms and function of DNA helicases and DNA motor proteins; protein-nucleic acids and protein-protein interactions; homologous genetic recombination and DNA repair
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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.
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Gregory Timp
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Synthetic Nanopores, Synthetic Tissue, Nanotransistors
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Yingxiao Wang
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Live-cell imaging and bionanotechnology
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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
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Huimin Zhao
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Directed evolution of enzymes and pathways, proteomics
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Sheng Zhong
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Computational modeling of transcriptional network and signal transduction; evolutionary analysis of genome sequence and gene expression
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Charles F. Zukoski
[Info]
[Lab Web Site]
Colloid and interfacial science
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Emeritus Faculty
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Lloyd Barr
Neural basis of sound pattern recognition, using the auditory systems of frogs and bats as models
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Howard Ducoff
[Info]
Measurement and modification of injury to nonproliferative cells
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Floyd Dunn
[Info]
All aspects of the interaction of ultrasound and biological media
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Michael Glaser
[Info]
Membrane structure and signal transduction; regulation of myelin synthesis; properties of adenylate kinase
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Govindjee
[Info]
Lifetime of fluorescence imaging; oxygenic photosynthesis; history of photosynthesis research; and photosynthesis education
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Sandy I. Helman
[Info]
Biophysical, hormonal and molecular mechanisms of regulation of ion transport in epithelial tissues
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