Faculty and Research
| Department | Research Topics | |
|---|---|---|
| Rick Baker | Biochemistry and Biophysics | cryo-EM, vesicle budding and fusion, membrane proteins |
| Max L. Berkowitz maxb@unc.edu Berkowitz website | Chemistry | surface hydration, computational chemistry |
| Kerry S. Bloom Kerry_Bloom@unc.edu Bloom website | Biology | molecular biology, chromosome and spindle dynamics |
| Robert B. Bourret bourret@med.unc.edu Bourret website | Microbiology and Immunology | molecular mechanism of signal transduction in bacteria |
| Albert Bowers website | Pharmacy | chemical biology, structure-based drug design, combinatorial biosynthesis |
| Nicholas Brown website | Pharmacology | structural biology, crystallography, cryo-EM, cell cycle, ubiquitin ligases |
| Sharon Campbell website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | structure/function of signaling proteins; NMR |
| Charlie Carter website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | structural basis for tRNA synthase function; molecular evolution; X-ray diffraction |
| Richard Cheney website | Physiology | cellular motor proteins, the myosin superfamily |
| Tim Elston website | Pharmacology | mathematical modeling of biological systems |
| Dorothy Erie website | Chemistry | structure of nucleic acid-protein complexes /transcription regulation |
| Michael R. Falvo website | Physics | physics of supramolecular protein complexes; cell structure |
| Ronit Freeman website | Applied Physical Sciences | self-assembly, peptide/DNA engineering |
| Amy Gladfelter website | Biology | cellular biophysics |
| Gary L. Glish website | Chemistry | mass spectrometry of proteins and biomolecules |
| Jack Griffith website | Microbiology and Immunology | electron microscopy, visualization of protein-DNA interactions |
| Klaus Hahn website | Pharmacology | protein engineering; spatio-temporal dynamics of signaling |
| Michael Jarstfer website | Medicinal Chemistry | enzyme function, drug-discovery, and biotechnology |
| Alexander Kabanov website | Medicinal Chemistry | polymer therapeutics and nano medicine |
| Hengming Ke website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | X-ray protein crystallography |
| Daphne Klotsa website | Applied Physical Sciences | Self-assembly, soft matter, computer simulations |
| Brian Kuhlman website | Biochemistry and Biophsyics | Protein engineering, protein-protein interactions, structural biology, Rosetta modeling software |
| Alain Laederach website | Biology | Disease-associated mutations and their effect on RNA Structure |
| Sam Lai website | Medicinal Chemistry | Infectious diseases and drug delivery to and imaging of metastatic tumors |
| David Lawrence website | Chemistry | chemistry, chemical biology |
| Andrew Lee website | Medicinal Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry, Protein, Structure and Dynamics, NMR Spectroscopy |
| Wesley Legant website | Pharmacology | super resolution and light sheet microscopy, cell migration and mechanobiology, microfabricated cell culture platforms |
| Bo Li website | Chemistry | Antibiotic mechanism of action |
| Jian Liu website | Medicinal Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry, Principles of heparin sulfate structural organization; Polysaccharide chemistry |
| William Marzluff website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | Biochemistry and Biophysics, RNA structure/RNA-protein interactions |
| Amy Maddox website | Biology | Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Division |
| Paul Maddox website | Biology | mitotic mechanisms and chromosome dynamics |
| Robert McGinty website | Pharmacy | Structural Biology / Epigenetic Signaling / Chromatin Regulation |
| Sorin Mitran website | Math | computation |
| Saskia Neher website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | mutation and regulation of a group of human lipases |
| Robert Nicholas website | Pharmacology | structure/function of extracellular nucleotide receptors |
| Amy Oldenburg website | Physics | biophotonics and biomechanics |
| Gary Pielak website | Chemistry Biochemistry and Biophysics | protein structure/function using NMR |
| Matthew Redinbo website | Chemistry | X-ray crystallography, drug discovery |
| Kevin Slep website | Biology | cytoskeletal structure and dynamics; X-ray crystalography |
| John Sondek website | Pharmacology | structural basis of signal transduction; X-ray crystallography |
| Richard Superfine website | Physics and Astronomy | cell surface structure; scanning probe microscopy |
| Nancy L Thompson website | Chemistry | cell surface immunochemistry; fluorescence microscopy |
| Alexander Tropsha website | Medicinal Chemistry | computer-assisted molecular modeling |
| Marcey Waters website | Chemistry | bioorganic chemistry and molecular recognition |
| Kevin Weeks website | Chemistry | structure/function of RNA and protein-RNA complexes |
| David Williams website | Pathology | protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions |
| Qi Zhang website | Biochemistry and Biophysics | molecular basis of RNA Function; NMR |