The Molecular Biophysics Training Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
MBTG Faculty

Andrew S. Belmont
Chromatin structure and nuclear architecture
Robert M. Clegg
Fluorescence dynamics, laser imaging
Antony R. Crofts
Molecular mechanisms in photosynthetic energy conversion
Robert B. Gennis
Molecular mechanisms in aerobic respiratin - structural and functional relationships in metalloproteins
John A. Gerlt

Mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and functional genomics: the importance of chemistry in the evolution of new enzymatic activities

Claudio F. Grosman
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter-gated Ion Channels.
Martin H. Gruebele
Fast protein folding dynamics studied by laser-induced temperature jump experiments and modeling.
Taekjip Ha
Developing and using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and nano-mechanical manipulation tools for molecular biophysics research.
Raven H. Huang
Structural studies of protein-RNA interactions; enzymes involved in RNA modifications; structure based design of inhibitors against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase
Eric G. Jakobsson
Computational studies of ion channels and biological membranes, using simulation, bioinformatics, and statistical mechanical analysis
John A. Katzenellenbogen
Research interests involve organic and inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and radiochemistry.
Neil L. Kelleher
Ultra-High Performance Mass Spectrometry for "Top Down" Proteomics, Structural Biology, and "Assembly Line" Enzymology.
Deborah E. Leckband
Molecular force movements; structure; proteins; electrostatics; biomembranes
Yi Lu
Role of metal ions in proteins, DNAs and RNAs with enzymatic function
Zaida Luthey-Schulten
Statistical mechanical framework to study protein structure prediction and protein folding
Susan A. Martinis
Molecular Mechanisms of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and group I intron splicing. Fidelity of protein synthesis
Todd J. Martinez
Quantum mechanics in biology, including bond-breaking and photoactive proteins.
Satish K. Nair
Structural Studies of Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
Eric Oldfield
Protein structure determination; design of novel drug molecules to kill parasitic protozoa causing malaria, sleeping sickness & opportunistic infections of immunocompromised individuals.
Chad M. Rienstra
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
Klaus J. Schulten
Structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living cell; development of new algorithms and efficient computing tools for structural biology
Paul R. Selvin
Use of novel forms of fluorescence, at both single-molecule and ensemble levels, to study actomyosin, ion channels, and other biomolecules.
Stephen G. Sligar
Structure-function relationships in protein and nucleic acid systems
Maria Spies
Biochemical mechanisms and function of DNA helicases and DNA motor proteins
Kenneth S. Suslick
Interests in synthetic, bio-organic and bioinorganic, materials, and physical chemistry. 
Emadeddin Tajkhorshid
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.
Wilfred A. van der Donk
My research interests are in the areas of bioorganic and organometallic chemistry.
Colin A. Wraight
Electron and proton transfer in proteins and across membranes; photosynthetic energy transduction; biological redox cofactors; molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions
Huimin Zhao
Directed Evolution of Enzymes and Pathways, Proteomics