Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Adjunct, Biology
Research Interests
regulation of gene expression by environmental factors such as light and oxygen; Differentiation of bacteria into different cell types
Director of Graduate Studies, Biochemistry Graduate Program
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Affiliate, Biology
Research Interests
maintenance of genomic integrity with a focus on DNA helicases and other factors involved in DNA replication, recombination, and repair; the evolution of DNA helicases
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Research Interests
Microbial structure, function and mechanism; evolution of chaperonin Hsp60; cryo-EM studies of human mitochondrial Hsp60
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Research Interests
Replication mechanism of RNA viruses; Structure and function of viral RNA; Development of RNA scaffolds to facilitate structure determination by X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests
protein structure-based drug design targeting cells involved in epithelial cancer and autoinflammatory disease, biochemical, mechanistic, and X-ray crystallographic analyses of regulatory RNAs; developing riboswitch-based molecular sensors
Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Adjunct, Biology
Research Interests
limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins: a minimalist approach to structure and function
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical Sciences Program
Research Interests
research focuses on the mechanisms that allow genome sequence to dictate the transcriptional control of gene expression
Professor, Biology
Sagalowsky Professor of Biology
Director, GCDB Graduate Program
Research Interests
gene regulation in development and disease, effects of tissue-specific gene expression on organismal health and behavior, regulation and function of RNA editing
Associate Professor, Biology
Affiliate, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Faculty Co-Director, Electron Microscopy Center
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Research Interests
utilizes cryo-electron microscopy, x-ray crystallography, and bioinformatics to elucidate the structures of complex macromolecular assemblies and machines; virus structure and the general principles by which viruses self-assemble; how virus self-assembly strategies can be targeted in the design of anti-viral therapeutics and the construction of nanomachines
Professor, Biology
Research Interests
Virus Assembly and Spread
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Affiliate Professor, Biology
Research Interests
detection and repair of DNA breaks with a focus on Homologous Recombination (HR) mediated DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair; interplay of DNA repair machinery and chromatin structures
Professor, Biology
Blatt Chair of Virology
Microbiology Section Associate Chair, Biology
Distinguished Professor, Biology
Carlos O. Miller Professor, Biology
HHMI Investigator
Research Interests
mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene silencing and large-scale epigenetic control
Assistant Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Adjunct, Biology
Associate Professor, Biology
Research Interests
bacterial cell-cell communication (quorum sensing), gene regulation, bacterial development, microbial genetics and biochemistry
Assistant Director of Research, Medical Sciences Program
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical Sciences Program
Adjunct Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Medical Sciences Program
Adjunct Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, IU Bloomington
Research Interests
research studies the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that lead to the proliferative growth associated with cancer
Distinguished Professor, Biology
Adjunct Core Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Research Interests
Cell biology, physiology, and molecular genetics underlying the pathogenesis of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus); dynamics and regulation of peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall synthesis using single-molecule and high-resolution microscopic, genetic, and biochemical approaches.
Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Adjunct, Biology
Adjunct, Chemistry
Research Interests
biophysics of virus assembly related to virus biology, development of antiviral strategies, and construction of virus nanostructures
The College of Arts