Faculty

Faculty	Department	Lab Affiliation	Interests

Robert A.. Bambara, Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology & Immunology	Bambara Lab	Human genome stability, DNA damage response, HIV replication and evolution
J. Scott. Butler, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology	Butler Lab	Post-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA Expression in the Nucleus of Eukaryotic Cells.
Gloria Culver, Ph.D.	Chair and Professor of Biology	Culver Lab	Assembly of the E. coli 30S ribosomal subunit.
Paul Dunman, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology	Dunman Lab	Using S. aureus and A. baumannii as model organisms to study bacterial pathogenesis
Thomas Eickbush, Ph.D.	Professor of Biology	Eickbush Lab	Retrotransposable elements, protein: RNA and protein: DNA interactions, sequence specific endonucleases.
Dmitri N.. Ermolenko, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Ermolenko Lab	Structural dynamics of the ribosome and ribosomal ligands during proteins synthesis
Elizabeth Grayhack, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Grayhack Lab	The role of the genetic code in translation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Clara L.. Kielkopf, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Kielkopf Lab	Structural and biophysical basis of normal and disease-associated pre-mRNA recognition
Lynne Maquat, Ph.D. Director	Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Maquat Lab	RNA metabolism in mammalian cells; Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (mRNA surveillance); Influence of pre-mRNA splicing on mRNA translation
Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology	Martinez-Sobrido Lab	Molecular biology and in the evasion of the innate immune response by negative strand RNA viruses
David H.. Mathews, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Director	Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Mathews Lab	Predicting RNA Secondary Structure
Jim Miller, Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology & Immunology	Miller (Jim) Lab	Molecular and cellular events that regulate T cell signaling and activation
Eric Phizicky, Ph.D.	Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Phizicky Lab	tRNA Biogenesis, Function & Quality Control
Gaurav Sharma, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering		RNA Computational Biology
Fred Sherman, Ph.D.	Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Sherman Lab	Yeast molecular biology and genetics; Gene expression; Cytochrome c biosynthesis and degradation
Harold C.. Smith, Ph.D.	Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Smith Lab	The role of mRNA editing in health and disease
Charles A.. Thornton, M.D.	Professor of Neurology	Thornton Lab	Neurogenetic disorders
Douglas H.. Turner, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry	Turner Lab	Biophysical Chemistry of RNA Folding and Therapeutics
Joseph E.. Wedekind, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Wedekind Lab	Mechanisms of action of non-protein-coding (nc)RNAs
Yi-Tao Yu, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics	Yu Lab	RNA modification, pre-mRNA splicing, snPNP biogenesis