Faculty

Faculty

Carl Bauer

Carl Bauer

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

Stephen Bell

Stephen Bell

Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Distinguished Professor, Biology

Research Interests
molecular biology of the archaea; mechanistic and regulatory parameters that govern DNA replication, gene transcription and cell division

Matthew L. Bochman

Matthew L. Bochman

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

Lingling Chen

Lingling Chen

Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Research Interests
Microbial structure, function and mechanism; evolution of chaperonin Hsp60; cryo-EM studies of human mitochondrial Hsp60

Kay Choi

Kay Choi

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

Charles E. Dann III

Charles E. Dann III

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

Jim Drummond

Jim Drummond

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

Peter C. Hollenhorst

Peter C. Hollenhorst

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical Sciences Program

  • pchollen@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-1151
  • Indiana University School of Medicine Bloomington - BB 213C, MSCI

Research Interests
research focuses on the mechanisms that allow genome sequence to dictate the transcriptional control of gene expression

Heather A. Hundley

Heather A. Hundley

Associate Professor, Biology

Sagalowsky Professor of Biology

Director, GCDB Graduate Program

Research Interests
research utilizes a combination of biochemistry, genomics and molecular biology to both characterize the effects of editing on gene expression and elucidate molecular mechanisms that are important for regulating RNA editing

Alizée Malnoë

Alizée Malnoë

Associate Professor, Biology

Affiliate, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Research Interests
Genomics and Bioinformatics, Plant Molecular Biology

Marc Morais

Marc Morais

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

Hengyao Niu

Hengyao Niu

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

John Patton

John Patton

Professor, Biology

Blatt Chair of Virology

Microbiology Section Associate Chair, Biology

Craig Pikaard

Craig Pikaard

Distinguished Professor, Biology

Carlos O. Miller Professor, Biology

HHMI Investigator

Research Interests
mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene silencing and large-scale epigenetic control

Rachel Samson

Rachel Samson

Assistant Research Scientist, Biochemistry Graduate Program

Research Interests
Mechanisms of chromosome duplication and segregation

Julia van Kessel

Julia van Kessel

Associate Professor, Biology

Research Interests
bacterial cell-cell communication (quorum sensing), gene regulation, bacterial development, microbial genetics and biochemistry

Claire E. Walczak

Claire E. Walczak

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

  • cwalczak@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-5919
  • Indiana University School of Medicine Bloomington - Myers Hall 262, MSCI

Research Interests
research studies the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that lead to the proliferative growth associated with cancer

Malcolm Winkler

Malcolm Winkler

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.

Adam Zlotnick

Adam Zlotnick

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