Participating Faculty Members

The participating faculty are drawn from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Biomedical Sciences , and reflect a wide diversity of research interests and expertise. Brief descriptions of the research areas represented by individual faculty members are summarized below.

Name/Contact Info	Research Interest
Rommie Amaro Professor School of Biological Sciences	Computational chemical biology and biophysics
Neville Bethel Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Protein dynamics and design
Itay Budin Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Biochemistry and synthetic biology of cell membranes
Geoffrey Chang Professor Biomedical Sciences	Structural biology of transporters; antibody and biosensor discovery
Kevin Corbett Professor Cellular and Molecular Medicine	Structural mechanisms of mitotic and meiotic chromosome organization and recombination
Galia Debelouchina Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Structural biology, gene regulation, protein aggregation
Lalit Deshmukh Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Solution NMR spectroscopy, retroviruses, protein and nucleic acid biochemistry
Neal Devaraj Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Design of chemoselective reactions for interrogating synthetic biology, the origins of life, and cellular compartments
Fleur Ferguson Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Dissection of cellular signaling networks underlying disease through development of selective compounds that act via inhibition, targeted degradation, or altering PTMs
Michael Gilson Professor School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences	Computational chemistry, molecular biophysics, computer-aided drug design
Alex Guseman Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Protein-glycan interactions, glycan targeting antivirals
Mark Herzik Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Protein structure and function
Adrian Jinich Assistant Professor School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences	Machine learning, enzymology, biochemistry, tuberculosis
Lisa Jones Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Developing mass spectrometry-based structural biology methods
Simpson Joseph Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Biochemistry & Biophysics: ribosome structure, function and dynamics; discovery of novel antibiotics
Elizabeth Komives Distinguished Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Structure, function, dynamics and thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions: NMR, mass spectrometry and kinetics
Alexis Komor Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Genome editing, nucleic acid chemistry, DNA repair
Christopher Lee Assistant Professor Molecular Biology	How organization in and around cellular membranes leads to organellar and subcellular ultrastructure
April Lukowski Assistant Professor School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences	Enzymology, biocatalysis, natural product biosynthesis
Tatiana Mishanina Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	RNA structure and function; gene expression regulation
Christopher Obara Assistant Professor Pharmacology	Membrane biophysics and cell biology
Padmini Rangamani Professor Pharmacology	Computational biophysics
Johannes Schoeneberg Assistant Professor Pharmacology	4D cell biology and self-supervised deep learning
Douglas Smith Professor Physics	Single-molecule methods, viral DNA packaging
Roger Sunahara Professor Pharmacology	G protein-coupled receptors, drug development
Navtej Toor Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	RNA structure
Elizabeth Villa Associate Professor Biological Sciences	Combining quantitative cell biology, cryo-electron microscopy and tomography, computational analysis, and integrative modeling to reveal cellular structure and fucntion
Dong Wang Professor Pharmacology	Molecular mechanisms of DNA damage processing pathways
Wei Wang Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Computational analysis of gene expression and regulation
Jin Zhang Professor Pharmacology	Molecular mechanisms, spatiotemporal regulation, and functional roles of protein kinases and phosphatases in cell signaling
Hongbo Zhao Assistant Professor Physics	New fundamental principles of emergent phenomena at the intersection of biophysics, soft matter, and active matter
Brian Zid Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Mitochondrial mRNA localization

Participating Faculty Members

Professor

School of Biological Sciences

Computational chemical biology and biophysics

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Associate Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Biochemistry and synthetic biology of cell membranes

Professor

Biomedical Sciences

Professor

Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Associate Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Associate Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Solution NMR spectroscopy, retroviruses, protein and nucleic acid biochemistry

Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Dissection of cellular signaling networks underlying disease through development of selective compounds that act via inhibition, targeted degradation, or altering PTMs

Professor

School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Protein structure and function

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Machine learning, enzymology, biochemistry, tuberculosis

Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Developing mass spectrometry-based structural biology methods

Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Distinguished Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Structure, function, dynamics and thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions: NMR, mass spectrometry and kinetics

Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Assistant Professor

Molecular Biology

How organization in and around cellular membranes leads to organellar and subcellular ultrastructure

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

RNA structure and function; gene expression regulation

Assistant Professor

Pharmacology

Professor

Pharmacology

Computational biophysics

Assistant Professor

Pharmacology

Professor

Physics

Single-molecule methods, viral DNA packaging

Professor

Pharmacology

G protein-coupled receptors, drug development

Associate Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Associate Professor

Biological Sciences

Combining quantitative cell biology, cryo-electron microscopy and tomography, computational analysis, and integrative modeling to reveal cellular structure and fucntion

Professor

Pharmacology

Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Computational analysis of gene expression and regulation

Professor

Pharmacology

Assistant Professor

Physics

New fundamental principles of emergent phenomena at the intersection of biophysics, soft matter, and active matter

Associate Professor