Trainers in the Biophysics program come from fifteen different Departments belonging to five different Colleges. The research areas cover a wide selection of topics in biophysics and in the quantitative biosciences.
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Paul G. Ahlquist
Credentials: Dept. of Oncology & Institute for Molecular Virology
Molecular mechanisms of virus replication and host interactions
Margaret Alexander
Credentials: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Defining Mechanisms of Diet-Host-Microbiota-Immune Interactions
Jon Audhya
Credentials: Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of membrane transport during development and disease
David Baum
Credentials: Department of Botany
Plant phylogenetics; conceptual issues in evolution and systematics; origin of life
David Beebe
Credentials: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Investigating cellular scale phenomena from both a physical and biological sciences perspective
William Bement
Credentials: Department of Integrative Biology & Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging
Self-organization in cell division and cell repair
Joshua Brockman
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Measuring and programming cellular mechanobiology
Thomas Brunold
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Spectroscopic methods applied to metalloenzyme structure and function
Samuel E. Butcher
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
Silvia Cavagnero
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Protein structure, folding, dynamics and aggregation in the cell; role of ribosome and molecular chaperones
Edwin Chapman
Credentials: Dept. of Neuroscience & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular mechanisms that underlie neuronal exocytosis
Snehal N. Chaudhari
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Interactions of the gut microbiome with the host; intestinal metabolism in health and disease
Joshua J. Coon
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Bioanalytical chemistry, mass spectrometry and proteomics
Scott M. Coyle
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Understanding and engineering microscale molecular and cellular machines
Jared Cregg
Credentials: Departments of Neuroscience & Neurology
Brainstem Circuits for Motor Control
Cynthia M. Czajkowski
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Structure/function relationship in neurotransmitter receptors
Katrina T. Forest
Credentials: Department of Bacteriology
Structures, functions and mechanisms of microbial proteins; using crystallography, protein engineering, biochemistry, chemical biology and classic microbiology
Samuel H. Gellman
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Proteins and protein-like molecules: design, synthesis, structure and function
Christopher Gisriel
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Molecular basis of bioenergetic systems involved in photosynthesis
Randall H. Goldsmith
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Single-molecule methods to study chemical reactions, biophysical processes, and materials properties
Timothy Grant
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry & Morgridge Institute for Research
Studying the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules using cryo-EM
Aviad Hai
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bioelectronic sensors for non-destructive electrophysiology
Jeffrey D. Hardin
Credentials: Department of Integrative Biology
Epithelial migration and embryonic development
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
Mrinalini Hoon
Credentials: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Mechanisms regulating retinal circuit organization and maintenance
Aaron A. Hoskins
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Mechanistic studies of eukaryotic RNA processing using chemical, genetic, and biophysical approaches
Xin Huang
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Neural basis of vision and visually guided behavior
Xuhui Huang
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Unraveling Protein Dynamics with Molecular Simulations and Machine Learning Tools
Jiaoyang Jiang
Credentials: Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy
Structure, mechanism and function of protein glycosylation in biology and disease
Betul Kacar
Credentials: Department of Bacteriology
Investigating molecular mechanisms of evolution and the origins of life
James L. Keck
Credentials: Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
Structural mechanisms of genome maintenance
Robert N. Kirchdoerfer
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry & Institute for Molecular Virology
Structural and biochemical exploration of RNA virus entry and replication
Robert Landick
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
Ci Ji Lim
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Mechanism of telomere maintenance; Structure-function studies of biological machines by cryo-EM and single-molecule imaging
Megan McClean
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology, synthetic biology, cellular engineering, signal processing
Kavi Mehta
Credentials: Department of Comparative Biosciences
How do leading and lagging strand stress responses and mutagenic bias differ?
Matthew J. Merrins
Credentials: Dept of Biomolecular Chemistry and Dept of Medicine
Enzymatic regulation of nutrient metabolism and hormone secretion in pancreatic islets
Monica E. Neugebauer
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and chemical biology
Jacob Notbohm
Credentials: Department of Engineering Physics
How biological cells adhere, push, pull, and move, using mechanics, soft matter physics, applied math, and cell biology
Andrea Putnam
Credentials: Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging
Function and regulation of RNA condensates in development
Srivatsan Raman
Credentials: Departments of Biochemistry
Protein allostery, orthogonal transcriptional systems, programmable synthetic bacteriophages
Chad M. Rienstra
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics
Abbas Rizvi
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Genomic Organization and Transcriptional Regulation
Gail A. Robertson
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Molecular mechanisms of ion channel function
Krishanu Saha
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Stem cell biology, genome engineering and biomaterials expertise to ask unique questions about human biology and disease
Alessandro Senes
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Biochemical and computational studies of membrane protein interactions
Nathan M. Sherer
Credentials: Dept. of Oncology & Institute for Molecular Virology
Cell biology of viral HIV-1 replication; single cell imaging technologies and biochemical and cell-based assays
Raunak Sinha
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Visual processing in the retina: How cellular, synaptic and circuit mechanisms shape retinal structure and function
Melissa Skala
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Combating cancer using photonics-based technologies and developing personal cancer treatment strategies
Lloyd M. Smith
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
Development and application of novel bioanalytical tools
Aussie Suzuki
Credentials: Department of Oncology
Cell biology, machanobiology, cancer biology, nanobiology, and biophysics in cell division machinery
Reid C. Van Lehn
Credentials: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomolecular simulation; nano-bio interactions; complex bio interfaces; cotranslational protein synthesis; biomembranes
Jade Wang
Credentials: Department of Bacteriology
Bacterial Stress Response, Nucleotide Signaling, Mutagenesis, Antibiotic Resistance
Hannah Wayment-Steele
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Predicting biomolecular dynamics; understanding roles of dynamics in function, evolution, design
Amy M. Weeks
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Spatially-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications; protein engineering; chemoproteomics
Elizabeth R. Wright
Credentials: Dept. of Biochemistry & Morgridge Institute for Research
3D structure of viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells by cryo-electron microscopy
Duo Xu
Credentials: Department of Biochemistry
Protein-Protein Interactions At The Host-Pathogen Interface
Filiz Yesilkoy
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Developing new bioanalytical methods using nanophotonic tools
John Yin
Credentials: Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Theoretical and experimental approaches to understand how viruses grow and evolve
Martin Zanni
Credentials: Department of Chemistry
We develop and utilize ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopies to study topics in biophysics and materials science
Wang Zheng
Credentials: Department of Neuroscience
Demystifying Mechanotransduction in Brain Development and Disorders