Enzymology, Nutrition and Metabolism faculty
- Donald H. Burke
Ribozyme mechanism and evolution and the origin of life; antiviral nucleic acid aptamers and the molecular basis of drug resistant HIV-1. - David W. Emerich
Enzymology, physiology and genomics of biological nitrogen fixation and related metabolic activities. - Mark Hannink
BTB-Kelch substrate adaptor family in development, oncogenesis and neurodegeneration. - Gerald Hazelbauer
Transmembrane receptors and sensory transduction in bacterial chemotaxis. - Dennis B. Lubahn
Biochemical genetics and epigenetics of estrogens and related receptors. - Jan A. Miernyk
Protein targeting and folding in plants, organelle biogenesis, posttranslational modifications. - Brenda A. Peculis
RNA processing, RNA stability, RNA turnover, RNA decapping enzymes, snoRNPs required for ribosome biogenesis. - Michael J. Petris
Regulation of metal nutrition and impacts on common human diseases. - Douglas D. Randall
Metabolism, signal transduction, protein kinases and phosphorylated proteins in plants. - Krishna K. Sharma
Structure-function of crystallins, role of ocular proteases and molecular basis for cataract development. - Grace Y. Sun
Neurodegenerative diseases, signal transduction, phospholipases A2, oxidative stress, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant botanical compounds. - John J. Tanner
X-ray crystallography of proline metabolic enzymes, bacterial virulence proteins and anti-DNA antibodies; structural bioinformatics of protein-bound water; molecular dynamics simulations of biological molecules. - Jay J. Thelen
Proteomics and phosphoproteomics of seed development and metabolism in oilseeds. - Peter A. Tipton
Mechanistic enzymology applied to agriculturally and medically important enzymes. - Judy D. Wall
Environmental microbiology; bioremediation of toxic metal; genetics and biochemistry of sulfate-reducing bacteria - Gary A. Weisman
Nucleotide receptors and signaling in inflammation, cardiovascular and autoimmune exocrine disease.