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MOB Faculty Research

The Molecular Biophysics (MOB) faculty are an 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 a link to their homepages.

[A-D] [E-K] [J-M] [N-R] [S-T] [U-Z] | Top | MOB Affiliated Faculty | Professor Emeriti |

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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, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laura Keller, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1980. Signalling pathways and mechanisms; flagellar gene induction.

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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Hong Li, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Director, Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program (MOB), Ph.D., Rochester, 1994. X-ray crystallography; structure and function of RNA splicing enzymes.

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

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

Michael Mascagni, Professor of Comp Sci & Math; Ph.D., New York Univ, 1987. Mathematical Biology, Monte Carlo methods; Numerical Analysis; Software Engineering.

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

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Anant K. Paravastu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Univ Calif, Berkeley, 2004. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Biomaterials, Protein Self-Assembly, Protein Aggregation Diseases.

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Amy Q.X. Sang, 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, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms for regulation of RNA stability; collagen synthesis.

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

M. Elizabeth Stroupe, Assistant Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Scripps, 2002. mRNA metabolism and sulfur metabolism; cryo EM.

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

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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Wei Yang, Associate 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, Associate 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, Associate Professor of Biological Science; Ph.D., Wuhan University (China), 1995. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV).

MOB Affiliated Faculty | Top

Affiliated faculty may mentor students as co-advisors with MOB Faculty

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

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

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

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

Professor Emeriti | Top

Donald L.D. Caspar, [No longer accepting students] Professor of Biological Science, Retired; Ph.D., Yale, 1955.

Kurt G. Hofer, [No longer accepting students] Professor of Biological Science, Retired; Ph.D., Vienna, 1965.

Michael Kasha, [No longer accepting students] Lawton Distinguised Professor Retired; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1945.

Kenneth H. Roux, [No longer accepting students] Professor Emeriti of Biological Science; Ph.D., Tulane, 1974. Molecular immunology; structural analysis of antibodies, antigens and immune complexes; immunochemistry.

Thomas M. Roberts, [No longer accepting students], Professor Emeriti of Biological Science; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1976. Molecular mechanisms involved in amoeboid movement.

De Witt L. Sumners, [No longer accepting students], Professor Emeriti of Mathematics; Ph.D., University of Cambridge (England), 1967. Application of geometry and topology to molecular biology.