X-ray Crystallography and Structural Biology

Xiaodong Cheng, Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Physics
Cellular modifications including DNA methylation, protein methylation, and histamine methylation.

Graeme Conn, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
RNA methyltransferases that confer antibiotic resistance and immune evasion by viruses using non-coding RNAs; Macromolecular X-ray crystallography.

Christine Dunham, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Ribosome function and structure; mechanism of viral mRNA frameshift errors;  structure and function of RNA-binding proteins involved in mRNA processing and transport.

David D. Dunlap, Assistant Professor Cell Biology
Chromatin folding and dynamics.

Dale Edmondson, Professor of Biochemistry and Adjunct Faculty of Chemistry
Structure, function, and mechanism of oxidation-reduction enzymes.

Laura Finzi, Associate Professor of Physics
Thermodynamics and kinetics of protein-induced conformational changes in DNA and the structures of nucleo-protein assemblies.

David Lynn, Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Structures and forces that enable supramolecular self-assembly of amyloid proteins, protein evolution.

Stefan Lutz, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Tailoring the functional properties of enzymes by protein engineering and directed evolution.

Ichiro Matsumura, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Directed evolution of novel protein functions; experimental determination of the adaptive mechanisms.

Eric Ortlund, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Structural biology, molecular biology, biophysics and biochemistry of proteins and protein-nucleic acid complexes.

Junmin Peng, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
A proteomics approach to systems biology and neurodegenerative disease.

Keith Wilkinson, Professor and Vice Chair of Biochemistry
Mechanism and regulation of protein synthesis and degradation.

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