Trainers in the Biophysics program have homes in fifteen different Departments belonging to five different Colleges: Bacteriology and Biochemistry (Agricultural & Life Sciences); Chemical & Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Engineering Physics (Engineering); Botany, Chemistry, Integrative Biology, and Physics (Letters & Science); Biomolecular Chemistry, Cell and Regenerative Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Oncology (Medicine & Public Health); and Pharmaceutical Sciences (School of Pharmacy).
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Paul G. Ahlquist
Dept. of Oncology & Institute for Molecular Virology
Molecular mechanisms of virus replication and host interactions
David Baum
Department of Botany
Plant phylogenetics; conceptual issues in evolution and systematics; origin of life
Thomas Brunold
Department of Chemistry
Spectroscopic methods applied to metalloenzyme structure and function
Mark E. Burkard
Department of Medicine
How protein kinases regulate human cell division and applying gained knowledge to improve treatment of breast cancer
Samuel E. Butcher
Department of Biochemistry
Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
Silvia Cavagnero
Department of Chemistry
Protein structure, folding, dynamics and aggregation in the cell; role of ribosome and molecular chaperones
Edwin Chapman
Dept. of Neuroscience & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular mechanisms that underlie neuronal exocytosis
Scott M. Coyle
Department of Biochemistry
Understanding and engineering microscale molecular and cellular machines
Cynthia M. Czajkowski
Department of Neuroscience
Structure/function relationship in neurotransmitter receptors
Katrina T. Forest
Department of Bacteriology
Structures, functions and mechanisms of microbial proteins; using crystallography, protein engineering, biochemistry, chemical biology and classic microbiology
Samuel H. Gellman
Department of Chemistry
Proteins and protein-like molecules: design, synthesis, structure and function
Randall H. Goldsmith
Single-molecule methods to study chemical reactions, biophysical processes, and materials properties
Aviad Hai
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bioelectronic sensors for non-destructive electrophysiology
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
Aaron A. Hoskins
Department of Biochemistry
Mechanistic studies of eukaryotic RNA processing using chemical, genetic, and biophysical approaches
Betul Kacar
Department of Bacteriology
Investigating molecular mechanisms of evolution and the origins of life
Robert Landick
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
Ci Ji Lim
Department of Biochemistry
Mechanism of telomere maintenance; Structure-function studies of biological machines by cryo-EM and single-molecule imaging
Matthew J. Merrins
Enzymatic regulation of nutrient metabolism and hormone secretion in pancreatic islets
Jacob Notbohm
How biological cells adhere, push, pull, and move, using mechanics, soft matter physics, applied math, and cell biology
Srivatsan Raman
Departments of Biochemistry
Protein allostery, orthogonal transcriptional systems, programmable synthetic bacteriophages
Chad M. Rienstra
Development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics
Krishanu Saha
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Stem cell biology, genome engineering and biomaterials expertise to ask unique questions about human biology and disease
Nathan M. Sherer
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
Visual processing in the retina: How cellular, synaptic and circuit mechanisms shape retinal structure and function
Melissa Skala
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Combating cancer using photonics-based technologies and developing personal cancer treatment strategies
Aussie Suzuki
Cell biology, machanobiology, cancer biology, nanobiology, and biophysics in cell division machinery
Reid C. Van Lehn
Biomolecular simulation; nano-bio interactions; complex bio interfaces; cotranslational protein synthesis; biomembranes
Ophelia S. Venturelli
Depts. of Biochemistry, Bacteriology & Chemical and Biological Engineering
Understanding and engineering microbial communities across space and time
Amy M. Weeks
Spatially-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications; protein engineering; chemoproteomics
Elizabeth R. Wright
Dept. of Biochemistry & Morgridge Institute for Research
3D structure of viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells by cryo-electron microscopy
John Yin
Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Theoretical and experimental approaches to understand how viruses grow and evolve
Martin Zanni
Department of Chemistry
We develop and utilize ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopies to study topics in biophysics and materials science