dept of biochemistry and molecular biophysics



Professors

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Nathan Baker

Nathan Baker
Phone:  (314) 362-2040
E-mail: baker@ccb.wustl.edu

Computational biology: multiscale modeling of biological process, biomolecular solvation, protein structure and dynamics

Wayne Barnes

Wayne Barnes
Phone: (314)362-3351
E-mail: barnes@biochem.wustl.edu

PCR methods; plant genetic engineering for insect or virus resistance

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Peter Burgers
Phone: (314)362-3872
E-mail: burgers@biochem.wustl.edu

Biochemistry and genetics of yeast DNA replication and repair

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Peter Chivers
Phone: (314)362-1496
E-mail: chivers@biochem.wustl.edu

Intracellular nickel trafficking in microbes - transport and regulation studied by a combination of biochemical, genetic, and structural methods

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Enrico Di Cera
Phone: (314)362-4185
E-mail: enrico@biochem.wustl.edu

Protease specificity and regulation. Protein engineering.

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Tom Ellenberger
Phone: (314) 362-0287
E-mail: tome@biochem.wustl.edu

Nucleic enzymology, structural biology, macromolecular interactions and molecular recognition

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Elliot Elson
Phone: (314)362-3346
E-mail: elson@biochem.wustl.edu

Dynamics and equilibrium of interactions of molecules in cells and model systems. Mechanics and dynamics of cells and tissues.

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William Frazier
Phone: (314)362-3348
E-mail: frazier@wustl.edu

Structure-function analysis along with in vitro and in vivo models of vascular disease are employed to understand how thrombospondin-1 and its receptor CD47 control nitric oxide signaling in vascular cells.

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Carl Frieden
Phone: (314)362-3344
E-mail: frieden@biochem.wustl.edu

Protein folding, aggregation,
intrinsically disordered proteins, fluorescence methods, fluorine NMR

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Roberto Galletto
Phone: (314)362-4368
E-mail: galletto@biochem.wustl.edu

Mechanistic studies of DNA motor proteins

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Kathleen Hall
Phone: (314)362-4196
E-mail: hall@biochem.wustl.edu

NMR and biochemical studies of RNA and RNA-protein complexes

Tim Lohman

Timothy Lohman
Phone: (314)362-4393
E-mail: lohman@biochem.wustl.edu

Mechanisms of DNA-protein interactions; DNA motor proteins (helicases) and SSB proteins

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John Majors
Phone: (314)362-1135
E-mail: majors@biochem.wustl.edu

Transcriptional regulation of gene expression in retroviruses and yeast

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Garland Marshall
Phone: (314)362-1567
E-mail: garland@biochem.wustl.edu

Major focus is molecular recognition - the basis of intermolecular interactions and specificity seen in drug and hormone receptors, antigen-antibody and substrate-enzyme systems.

Linda Pike

Linda Pike
Phone: (314)362-9502
E-mail: pike@biochem.wustl.edu

Mechanism of action of growth factors; polyphosphoinositide metabolism

Jay Ponder

Jay Ponder
Phone: (314)362-4195
E-mail: ponder@dasher.wustl.edu

Protein engineering; computer modeling of protein structure and folding


Emeriti Professors

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George Drysdale
Phone: (314)362-3358
E-mail: drysdale@biochem.wustl.edu

Macromolecular Interactions and Molecular Recognition

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Linda Kurz
Phone: (314)362-3401
E-mail: kurz@biochem.wustl.edu

Macromolecular Interactions and Molecular Recognition

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F. Scott Mathews
Phone: (314)362-1080
E-mail: mathews@biochem.wustl.edu

X-ray structure and analysis of macromolecules

Research Faculty


Joint and Adjunct Faculty

 

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