| Department of Molecular and Structural
Biochemistry (CALS) |
| Paul F. Agris |
RNA structure/function and design, nucleotide modification, NMR |
| Hanna Gracz |
Inter and intramolecular hydrogen-bonding in solution; Developing NMR pulse sequences |
| Cynthia Hemenway |
RNA viruses, RNA replication, RNA:protein interactions, RNA structure |
| E. Stuart Maxwell |
Small nucleolar RNAs, intronic snoRNA and rRNA processing |
| Bob Rose |
Regulation of transcription |
| Paul Wollenzien |
Ribosome structure, mechanism of protein synthesis, RNA structure |
| Department of Computer Science (CE) |
| Donald Bitzer |
Development of advanced coding theory and the decoding of RNA information |
| Steffen Heber |
Bioinformatics, computational biology and algorithms |
| Mladen Vouk |
Signal processing and information theory methods to analysis of genetic processes; translation in E. coli |
| Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CE) |
| Carol K. Hall |
Molecular thermodynamics and computer simulation, equations of state, polymer modeling, protein folding, chiral drug separation |
| Department of Microbiology (CALS) |
| James W. Brown |
Comparative analysis of RNA, RNase P, molecular evolution, Archaea |
| Eric S. Miller |
RNA:protein interactions, translational regulation, prokaryotes |
| Department of Chemistry (CALS) |
| Alex Deiters |
Unique chemical tools to answer questions in functional genomics |
| Stefan Franzen |
The application of spectroscopy to structure and determination of enzymatic reaction mechanisms in biology |
| Alex Smirnov |
Lipid nanotube arrays, self-assembly of membrane proteins, nanostructures and information devices based on quantum principles |
| Tatyana Smirnova |
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and fluorescence spectroscopy |
| Lin He |
Novel analytical tools and sensors for bioanalysis |
| Department of Crop Science (CALS) |
| George Allen |
Nuclear structure in plants and its impact on gene expression |
| Department of Plant Pathology (CALS) |
| Steve Lommel |
Red clover necrotic mosaic virus as a model system to study the molecular mechanisms of plant viral pathogenesis |
| Department of Forestry (CNR) |
| Laigeng Li |
Molecular biology of cell wall biosynthesis, Functional genomics of xylem development, Forest biotechnology |
| Department of Plant Biology (CALS) |
| Heike Winter-Sederoff |
Plant Gravitational Genomics |
| Niki Robertson |
Virus-induced gene silencing, geminivirus-host interactions, abiotic stress |
| Department of Chemical and Biomedical Sciences (CHE) |
| Barbara Sherry |
Reovirus-induced myocarditis |