Professors

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	Nathan Baker Associate Professor Phone: (314) 362-2040 E-mail: baker@ccb.wustl.edu Computational biology: multiscale modeling of biological process, biomolecular solvation, protein structure and dynamics
	Wayne Barnes Associate Professor Phone: (314) 362-3351 E-mail: barnes@biochem.wustl.edu PCR methods; plant genetic engineering for insect or virus resistance
	Peter Burgers Professor Phone: (314) 362-3872 E-mail: burgers@biochem.wustl.edu Biochemistry and genetics of yeast DNA replication and repair
	Peter Chivers Assistant Professor Phone: (314) 362-1496 E-mail: chivers@biochem.wustl.edu Intracellular nickel trafficking in microbes - transport and regulation studied by a combination of biochemical, genetic, and structural methods
	Enrico Di Cera Professor Phone: (314) 362-4185 E-mail: enrico@biochem.wustl.edu Protease specificity and regulation. Protein engineering.
	Tom Ellenberger Professor Phone: (314) 362-0287 E-mail: tome@biochem.wustl.edu Nucleic enzymology, structural biology, macromolecular interactions and molecular recognition
	Elliot Elson Professor Phone: (314) 362-3346 E-mail: elson@biochem.wustl.edu Dynamics and equilibrium of interactions of molecules in cells and model systems. Mechanics and dynamics of cells and tissues.
	William Frazier Professor Phone: (314) 362-3348 E-mail: frazier@wustl.edu Structure-function analysis along with in vitro and in vivo models of vascular disease are employed to understand how thrombospondin-1 and its receptor CD47 control nitric oxide signaling in vascular cells.
	Carl Frieden Professor Phone: (314) 362-3344 E-mail: frieden@biochem.wustl.edu Protein folding, aggregation, intrinsically disordered proteins, fluorescence methods, fluorine NMR
	Eric A. Galburt Assistant Professor Phone: (314) 362-5201 E-mail: egalburt@biochem.wustl.edu Single molecule biophysics, optical trapping, magnetic trapping, DNA transcription, RNA splicing
	Roberto Galletto Assistant Professor Phone: (314) 362-4368 E-mail: galletto@biochem.wustl.edu Mechanistic studies of DNA motor proteins
	Kathleen Hall Professor Phone: (314) 362-4196 E-mail: hall@biochem.wustl.edu NMR and biochemical studies of RNA and RNA-protein complexes
	Katherine Henzler-Wildman Assistant Professor Phone: (314) 362-1674 E-mail: khenzler@biochem.wustl.edu Solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy: dynamics of integral membrane proteins, functional importance of protein dynamics, mechanism of transporter proteins, protein-lipid interaction
	Timothy Lohman Professor Phone: (314) 362-4393 E-mail: lohman@biochem.wustl.edu Mechanisms of DNA-protein interactions; DNA motor proteins (helicases) and SSB proteins
	John Majors Associate Professor Phone: (314) 362-1135 E-mail: majors@biochem.wustl.edu Transcriptional regulation of gene expression in retroviruses and yeast
	Garland Marshall Professor Phone: (314) 362-1567 E-mail: garland@biochem.wustl.edu Major focus is molecular recognition - the basis of intermolecular interactions and specificity seen in drug and hormone receptors, antigen-antibody and substrate-enzyme systems.
	Linda Pike Associate Professor Phone: (314) 362-9502 E-mail: pike@biochem.wustl.edu Mechanism of action of growth factors; polyphosphoinositide metabolism
	Jay Ponder Associate Professor Phone: (314) 362-4195 E-mail: ponder@dasher.wustl.edu Protein engineering; computer modeling of protein structure and folding

Research Faculty

	Sudha Cowsik Phone: (314) 362-3342 E-mail: scowsik@biochem.wustl.edu Protein folding, aggregation, intrinsically disordered proteins, fluorescence methods, fluorine NMR
	James W. Janetka Phone: (314) 362-0509 E-mail: janetkaj@biochem.wustl.edu Design and chemical synthesis of novel compounds; X-ray structure-based design; medicinal chemistry
	Alex Kozlov Phone: (314) 362-4394 E-mail: kozlov@biochem.wustl.edu Mechanisms of DNA-protein interactions; DNA motor proteins (helicases) and SSB proteins
	Ana Ruiz-Manzano Phone: (314) 362-4821 E-mail: ruizmanzanoa@biochem.wustl.edu Single molecule biophysics, optical trapping, magnetic trapping, DNA transcription, RNA splicing
	Changguo Tang Phone: (314) 362-4745 E-mail: tang@bionmr3.wustl.edu NMR and biochemical studies of RNA and RNA-protein complexes
	Scott Wildman Phone: (314) 362-8945 E-mail: wildman@biochem.wustl.edu Computational drug discovery: Protein-ligand interactions, Protein structural families, Ligand optimization techniques

Emeriti Professors

	Gary Ackers E-mail: jmh20t@aol.com Physical basis of biological control; Protein-nucleic acid interacting systems
	George Drysdale Phone: (314) 362-3358 E-mail: drysdale@biochem.wustl.edu Macromolecular interactions and recognition
	Linda Kurz Phone: (314) 362-3401 E-mail: kurz@biochem.wustl.edu Macromolecular interactions and molecular recognition
	F. Scott Mathews Phone: (314) 362-1080 E-mail: mathews@biochem.wustl.edu X-ray structure and analysis of macromolecules

Joint and Adjunct Faculty