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MOB Faculty Research

The molecular biophysics (MOB) faculty are interdisciplinary group of chemists, biologists, mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. The structural biology (SB) faculty and computational biophysics (CB) faculty are a sub group of MOB faculty who reside in Kasha Laboratory. Below you will find a short description of the MOB faculty research and link to their homepages.

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Hank Bass, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1992. Chromosome structure; telomere dynamics: fluorescence in situ hybridization.

Richard Bertram, Associate Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1993. Activity of pancreatic beta-cells; hypothalamic control of hormone secretion; bursting oscillations in excitable cells; computational structural biology.

Michael Blaber, Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D., University of California at Irvine,1990. Protein structure and stability relationships; serine protease structure and specificity relationships.

Rafael P. Brüschweiler, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Ph.D., ETH Zurich, 1991. Structural dynamics of proteins; structural genomics; covariance NMR spectroscopy; quantum information processing.

P. Bryant Chase, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1984. Cellular and molecular biomechanics of cardiac and skeletal muscle.

Kevin C. Chen, Assistant Professor of Engineering; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997. Neural tissue engineering; cancer therapy; drug delivery.

Timothy A. Cross, Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1981. Solid and liquid state NMR spectroscopy; structure of membrane proteins.

Wu-Min Deng, Assistant Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK, 1997. Molecular mechanisms of cellular communication through the extra cellular matrix.

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W. Ross Ellington, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Rhode Island, 1976. Structure, function and evolution of metabolic enzymes.

Lloyd M. Epstein, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1983. Molecular genetics; RNA biology.

Debra A. Fadool, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1993. Biophysics of ion channels and signal transduction.

Piotr G. Fajer, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Leeds (England), 1983. Molecular mechanism of muscle contraction; electron paramagnetic resonance.

Marcia Fenley, Assistant Professor of Physics; Ph.D., Electrostatics in biomolecular recognition; computational biophysics.

David M. Gilbert, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D. Stanford University, 1989. Mammalian replication origins; nublear organization and stem cell commitment.

Samuel C.Grant, Assistant Professor of Chem & Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D., Univ Illinois, 2001. Fabrication & application of radio frequency microcoil probes to MR sepctroscopy & imaging.

Jamila I. Horabin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Ph.D. Duke, 1987. RNA-interference and generating gender differences in Drosophila.

Mohammed Kabbaj, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Ph.D., Univ Bordeaux (France), 1997. Molecular mechanisms in response to emotional stress.

Yoichi Kato, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Ph.D., Nagoya City Univ Med School (Japan), 1997. Transcriptional regulation; gliogenesis.

Thomas Keller, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1981. Molecular basis for cytoskeletal function; platelet activation response.

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Cathy W. Levenson, Professor of Neuroscience; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993. Mechanism of metals in eukaryotes; metal toxicity.

Hong Li, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., Rochester, 1994. X-ray crystallography; structure and function of RNA splicing enzymes.

Bruce Locke, Professor of Engineering, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1989. Macromolecule transport in cells; tissue engineering.

Timothy M. Logan, Professor of Chemistry and Interim Director of IMB; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991. Characterization of protein folding reactions using multidimensional NMR; structural biology of glycoproteins.

Teng Ma, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1999. Cell and tissue engineering of stem cells.

Alan G. Marshall, Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Stanford, 1970. Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry; theory, technique development, and biological applications.

Brian Miller, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Univ North Carolina, 2001. Protein structure, function, and evolution.

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Hugh Nymeyer, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Univ California, San Diego, 2001. Membrane structure & dynamics; protein-membrane interactions; advanced sampling methods; protein folding.

James M. Olcese, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D., Marquette University . Circadian physiology; neuroendocrinology; sleep disorders.

Jack Quine, Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971 Mathematics of protein structure; structure refinement methodology.

Randolph Rill, Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1971. Physical and analytical biochemistry.

Thomas M. Roberts, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1976. Molecular mechanisms involved in amoeboid movement.

Michael Roper, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Florida, 2003. Microfluidics and microanalytical assays of adipocyte secretion.

Kenneth H. Roux, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Tulane, 1974. Molecular immunology; structural analysis of antibodies, antigens and immune complexes; immunochemistry.

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Amy Q.X. Sang, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1990. Biochemistry and enzymology of matrix metalloproteins.

Scott Stagg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2001. Cryo-electron microscopy studies of the structure of COPII coated vesicles.

Branko Stefanovic, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms for regulation of RNA stability; collagen synthesis.

Oliver Steinbock, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Georg-August University Göttingen (Germany), 1993. Complex and chaotic reaction networks and mechanisms.

Geoffery F. Strouse, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Univ North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993. Synthesis: single source precursor routes; assembly: nanocrystal composites; vibrational spectroscopy; bio-nano assembly.

De Witt L. Sumners, Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., University of Cambridge (England), 1967. Application of geometry and topology to molecular biology.

Hengli Tang, Assistant Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 1998. Virus-host cell interactions; cellular cofactors in HIV and HCV infection.

Kenneth A. Taylor, Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1975. Study of muscle contraction using 3-D electron microscopy; structure of muscle proteins and macromolecular assemblies by electron crystallography.

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Yanchang Wang, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997. Systems biology of cell cycle control.

Wei Yang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 2001. Computational biochemistry and biophysics; first-principle based protein and ligand design; development of efficient simulation techniques.

Hong-Guo Yu, Assistant Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2000. Meiotic chromosome organization and segregation in yeast.

Huan-Xiang Zhou, Professor of Physics; Ph.D., Drexel, 1988. Computer modeling of the structure, dynamics, and function of proteins; physical basis of protein stability; theoretical models of protein folding and protein-ligand binding kinetics; protein structure prediction.

Yi Zhou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D., U. Minnesota, 1994. Mechanism and Function of Ion Channel Regulation in Neurons.

Fanxiu Zhu, Assistant Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Wuhan University (China), 1995. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV).

Lei Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., New York University, 2003. Molecular synthesis; molecular recognition.