Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry

Faculty

NAME	RESEARCH TOPIC
L. Mario Amzel Professor and Director	Structural enzymology of redox and phosphoryl-transfer enzymes: MICAL, VP14, PI3K, and Nudix hydrolases. Selected areas of structural thermodynamics
Howard Dintzis Professor Emeritus	Receptor oligomerization control of cell function.
Dominique Frueh Assistant Professor	Structural and dynamic studies of active enzymatic systems by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) - Mechanisms of domain communication in Non-ribosomal Peptide Synthetases.
Daniel Leahy Professor	Three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes involved in cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction and signaling.
Jon Lorsch Professor	Mechanisms of eukaryotic translation initiation.
Herschel Wade Assistant Professor	Molecular basis of multi-ligand receptor specificity, ligand-dependent transcriptional regulation and bacterial multidrug resistance.
Cynthia Wolberger Professor, HHMI	Structural studies of transcriptional silencing and ubiquitination.
Jie Xiao Assistant Professor	Dynamics of gene regulation and cell division using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and live-cell analysis.