Trainers in the Biophysics program have homes in thirteen different Departments belonging to four different Colleges: Bacteriology and Biochemistry (Agricultural & Life Sciences); Chemical & Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Engineering Physics (Engineering); Chemistry, Integrative Biology, and Physics (Letters & Science); Biomolecular Chemistry, Cell and Regenerative Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Oncology (Medicine & Public Health).
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Mark E. Burkard
How protein kinases regulate human cell division and applying gained knowledge to improve treatment of breast cancer
Silvia Cavagnero
Protein structure, folding, dynamics and aggregation in the cell; role of ribosome and molecular chaperones
Katrina T. Forest
Structures, functions and mechanisms of microbial proteins; using crystallography, protein engineering, biochemistry, chemical biology and classic microbiology
Brian G. Fox
Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering
Randall H. Goldsmith
Single-molecule methods to study chemical reactions, biophysical processes, and materials properties
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
Aaron A. Hoskins
Mechanistic studies of eukaryotic RNA processing using chemical, genetic, and biophysical approaches
Robert Landick
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
Ci Ji Lim
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
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
Stem cell biology, genome engineering and biomaterials expertise to ask unique questions about human biology and disease
Nathan M. Sherer
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
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
Amy M. Weeks
Spatially-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications; protein engineering; chemoproteomics
Elizabeth R. Wright
3D structure of viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells by cryo-electron microscopy
Martin Zanni
We develop and utilize ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopies to study topics in biophysics and materials science