RESEARCH AREAS
"Molecular Biology" is defined by both an approach (a way to do life science) and a subject (a way to think about life science). Theses underlie our drive to understand molecules – DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites – that are the fundamental units of a living system. The MB&B department engages in research and teaching from the perspective of molecular biophysics, protein biochemistry, molecular genetics, and cellular imaging; all approaches that permit observation and manipulation of molecules at different levels of scale.
Links to individual faculty research programs are below.
- Oriana Fisher | Structural biology of bacterial metalloproteins and enzymes
- Scott Holmes | Molecular genetics of gene silencing in budding yeast
- Robert Lane | Gene co-regulation in the developing olfactory system
- Amy MacQueen | Meiotic prophase chromosome dynamics
- Ishita Mukerji | Spectroscopic studies of protein and nucleic acid structure-function
- Donald Oliver | Mechanisms of protein translocation across membranes
- Rich Olson | X-ray crystallography and biophysical characterization of proteins involved in infectious disease
- Teresita Padilla-Benavides | Transition metals and cell differentiation