Research

Sarah Ades

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Signal transduction and antibiotic induced stress responses in bacteria.

(814) 863-1088

Istvan Albert

• Associate Professor, Bioinformatics

(814) 865-2281

Paul Babitzke

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Co-director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology

Regulation of gene expression by RNA structure and RNA-binding proteins

(814) 865-0002

Lu Bai

• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Assistant Professor of Physics

Single cell / single molecule study of chromatin and gene regulation

(814) 863-4824

J. Martin Bollinger

• Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanisms of metalloenzymes and metallofactor assembly

(814) 863-5707

Squire Booker

• Associate Professor of Chemistry and
• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanisms of cofactor action in enymatic reactions

(814) 865-8793

Donald Bryant

• Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology and
• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and genomics of photosynthetic bacteria

(814) 865-1992

Craig Cameron

• Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
• Associate Department Head for Research and Graduate Education

RNA polymerases and RNA-binding proteins in viral infection and mitochondrial disease

(814) 863-8705

Frank Dorman

• Forensic Science Program
• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(814) 863-6805

J. Gregory Ferry

• Stanley Person Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(814) 863-5721

Richard Frisque

• Professor of Molecular Virology,
• Associate Department Head for Equity and Diversity

Molecular approaches to the unique biology of JC virus

(814) 863-3523

David Gilmour

• Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology

Transcriptional regulation of the hsp70 heat shock gene in Drosophila

(814) 863-8905

John Golbeck

• Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Professor of Chemistry

(814) 865-1163

Ying Gu

• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanism of cellulose biosynthesis in arabidopsis

(814) 867-3827

Wendy Hanna-Rose

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
• Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies

Molecular Genetics of Metabolism and Development in C. elegans

(814) 865-7904

Ross Hardison

• T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Genomics and gene regulation

(814) 863-0113

Mitchell Holland

• Director, Forensic Science
• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(814) 865-5286

Teh-hui Kao

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemical and molecular bases of self/non-self recognition during plant reproduction

(814) 863-1042

Kenneth Keiler

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Small RNAs and protein localization in bacterial development and antimicrobial drug discovery

(814) 863-0787

Andrey Krasilnikov

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural biology of RNA and RNA-protein complexes

(814) 865-5050

Maria Krasilnikova

• Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(814) 863-5555

Carsten Krebs

• Associate Professor of Chemistry and
• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Bioinorganic chemistry- spectroscopic and kinetic studies on the mechanisms of iron-containing enzymes

(814) 865-6089

Zhi-Chun Lai

• Professor of Biology and
• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Growth control and cancer genetics

(814) 863-0479

Arthur Lesk

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Protein structure, function and evolution

(814) 865-4743

Bernhard Lüscher

• Professor of Biology and
• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Psychiatry

Structure, function and post-synaptic targeting of GABAA receptors

(814) 865-5549

Andrea Mastro

• Professor of Microbiology and Cell Biology

Breast cancer and immune system

(814) 863-0152

Katsuhiko Murakami

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural biology of RNA polymerase

(814) 865-2758

Anton Nekrutenko

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Comparative genome analysis

(814) 865-4752

Tracy Nixon

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Functional bases of signal transduction and gene regulation by AAA+ATPases in bacteria

(814) 863-4904

Ronald Porter

• Director, Graduate Studies
• Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

(814) 863-4903

Kathleen Postle

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Signal transduction and iron transport in bacteria

(814) 863-7568

Frank Pugh

• Willaman Chair in Molecular Biology and
• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemistry and genomics and eukaryotic transcription regulation

(814) 863-8252

Joseph Reese

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chromatin structure and gene expression, DNA damage resistance pathways

(814) 865-1976

Marylyn Ritchie

• Director, Center for Systems Genomics
• Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits

(814) 863-5107

Melissa Rolls

• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Subcellular compartmentalization of neurons

(814) 867-1395

Reena Roy

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
• Forensic Science

(814) 867-2054

Lorraine Santy

• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Small GTPase regulation of epithelial cell motility

(814) 863-6813

Stephan Schuster

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Genome evolution in host-adapted bacteria

(814) 863-9278

Scott Selleck

• Professor and Head,
• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Regulation of growth factor signaling, proteogylcan modulation of morphogen function, nervous system assembly and synapse development

(814) 867-3274

Song Tan

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural biology of eukaryotic gene regulation

(814) 865-3355

Graham Thomas

• Associate Professor of Biology
• and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Roles of the cytoskeleton in Drosophila development: molecular and genetic approaches

(814) 863-0716

Ming Tien

• Professor of Biochemistry

Characterization and biochemical analysis of cellulose synthesis in a variety of organisms. Mechanism and regulation of fungal degradation of lignin. Dissimilatory Iron reduction

(814) 863-1165

C.P. David Tu

• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(814) 863-2096

Yanming Wang

• Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Epigenetic histone modifications in cell differentiation and cancer

(814) 865-3775

Thomas Wood

• Endowed Biotechnology Chair
• Professor of Chemical Engineering and
• Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Discovering the genetic basis of biofilm formation with E. coli and P. aeruginosa Discerning the role of toxin/antitoxin systems and cryptic prophages Evolving biofilm regulators to control biofilm formation for biorefineries Evolving bidirectional hudrogenases for hydrogen production Understanding interkingdom cell communication

(814) 863-4811