#  Research & Faculty 

 



We have compiled a list of faculty who we feel have research interests that are well-aligned with the MMB community's interests in studying health and disease at the molecular level. However, students who work with faculty members who are not on this list, but whose research interests fall within the scope of MMB, are welcome to apply to be a part of MMB.

**Karen Adelman** - *Probing dynamics of gene expression*  
**Haribabu Arthanari** - *NMR Spectroscopy, Structural Biology*  
**Welcome Bender** - *Drosophila Molecular Genetics*  
**Stephen Blacklow** - *Biochemistry of transmembrane receptors and signaling*  
**Alan Brown** - *Seeing molecular processes in atomic detail*  
**Joan Brugge** - *Signal transduction in normal and transformed cells*  
**Sara Buhrlage** - *Chemical targeting of the ubiquitin system for cancer therapy* **-**   
**Martha L. Bulyk** - *Transcription factors and cis-regulatory elements in transcriptional regulation*  
**Stephen Buratowski** - *Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Eukaryotic Gene Expression*  
**James Chou** - *Protein NMR Spectroscopy of Membrane Protein*  
**Edward Chouchani** - *Mitochondrial Redox Control over Pathophysiology*  
**Dipanjan Chowdhury** - *Repair of Double stranded DNA breaks-pathway choices and more*  
**Stirling Churchman** - *Regulation of global gene expression at high resolution*  
**John Clardy** - *Biologically active small molecules*  
**Donald Coen** - *Molecular Genetics of Herpes Viruses*  
**George Daley** - *Stem cells in disease and development*  
**Alan D. D’Andrea** - *Genomic instability and cancer susceptibility*  
**Nika Danial** - *Integration of Metabolism and Stress Pathways*  
**Sloan Devlin** - *Study human microbiome using small molecules*  
**Michael Eck** - *Structure Biology of Cytoplasmic Signal Transduction*  
**Robert V. Farese, Jr.** - *Cellular lipid metabolism*  
**Daniel Finley** - *The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway*  
**Eric Fischer** - *Structural biology of the ubiquitin proteasome system*  
**John Flanagan** - *Cell-cell signaling in neural development and regeneration*  
**Alfred Goldberg** - *Mechanism and Function of Intracellular Protein Turnover*  
**Nathanael Gray** - *Functional small molecules for biological discovery*  
**Richard Gregory** - *Mechanisms of RNAi in stem cells*  
**Steven Gygi** - *Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics*  
**Marcia Haigis** - *Mitochondria in aging and metabolism*  
**Wade Harper** - *Mechanism and biology of ubiquitin-like protein conjugation cascades*  
**Stephen C. Harrison** - *Structure and dynamics of macromolecular assemblies*  
**James M. Hogle** - *X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Viruses and Proteins*  
**Sun Hur** - *Molecular mechanism of the immune system*  
**Justin Kim** - *Chemical tools for manipulating biological systems*  
**Randall King** - *Chemical Approaches to Cell Division and Cancer*  
**Tomas Kirchhausen** - *Single-molecule biology and visualization of cellular dynamics*  
**Philip Kranzusch** - *Enzyme biochemistry and innate immune signaling*  
**Andrew Kruse** - *Molecular mechanisms of transmembrane signaling*  
**Andrew Lassar** - *Regeneration of cartilage and skeletal muscle*  
**Maofu Liao** - *Protein structure by high-resolution electron microscopy*  
**Stephen Liberles** - *Molecular Biology of Instinctive Animal Behavior*  
**Joseph Loparo** - *Single-molecule studies of DNA repair*  
**Tim Mitchison** - *Cytoskeletal Dynamics*  
**Danesh Moazed** - *Gene Silencing and Chromosome Structure*  
**David Pellman** - *Normal cell division mechanisms and cell division defects in cancer*  
**Pere Puigserver** - *Nutrient Sensing and Metabolic Control*  
**Tom Rapoport** - *Protein Transport Across the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane*  
**Robin Reed** - *Function of human RNA machines in both normal and disease states*  
**Thomas Roberts** - *Control of Gene Expression Tumorgenesis and Differentiation*  
**David Rudner** - *Bacterial chromosome dynamics and cell biology*  
**Adrian Salic** - *Mechanisms of vertebrate Hedgehog signaling*  
**Chris Sander** - *Information from evolution; combination cancer therapy*  
**Sichen (Susan) Shao** - *Regulation of protein biosynthesis and quality control*  
**Yang Shi** - *Transcriptional control in differentiation/development and tumorigenesis*  
**William Shih** - *Biomolecular nanotechnology*  
**Piotr Sliz** - *Structural biology of mechanisms in gene regulation*  
**Bruce Spiegelman** - *Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Differentiation and Gene Expression*  
**Timothy Springer** - *Molecular Basis of cell adhesion and migration*  
**Kevin Struhl** - *Gene regulation in yeast and cancer*  
**David Van Vactor** - *Neuronal Pathfinding and Synaptogenesis*  
**Gerhard Wagner** - *NMR spectroscopy of proteins and metabolites*  
**Johannes Walter** - *Maintenance of genome stability in S phase*  
**Tobias Walther** - *Lipid and Membrane Homeostasis*  
**Malcolm Whitman** - *Signal Transduction During Early Development*  
**Wesley P. Wong** - *Single-molecule Biophysics and Force Spectroscopy*  
**Hao Wu** - *Mechanistic elucidation of immune signaling*  
**Junying Yuan** - *Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death*  
**Jean Zhao** - *Kinase signaling in cancer*