Richard M. Amasino
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Phone: (608) 265-2170
Email: amasino@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Regulation of plant development; mechanisms of floral induction.
Aseem Z. Ansari
Professor, (also with The Genome Center)
Phone: (608) 265-4690
Email: ansari@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry, biology and genomics
Alan D. Attie
Jack Gorski Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-1372
Email: attie@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Genetics of Diabetes, beta-cell biology
Sebastian Y. Bednarek
Professor
Phone: (608) 263-0309
Email: bednarek@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Plant cell biology; intracellular protein trafficking, membrane biogenesis
Samuel E. Butcher
Professor
Phone: (608) 263-3890
Email: butcher@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: RNA structure, function and dynamics; NMR spectroscopy of RNA and macromolecular complexes; biochemistry of RNA catalysis
Margaret Clagett-Dame
Professor, (also Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Phone: (608) 262-3450
Email: dame@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular mechanism of action of the vitamin A metabolite, all-trans retinoic acid, in nervous system development; the therapeutic use of vitamin A and D analogs
Michael M. Cox
Evelyn M. Mercer Professor in Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-1181
Email: cox@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair
Elizabeth A. Craig
Elizabeth Cavert Miller Professor, Steenbock Professor of Microbial Science
Phone: (608) 263-7105
Email: ecraig@wisc.edu
Research Area: Folding and remodeling of proteins in the cell - the function of molecular chaperones
Brian G. Fox
Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-9708
Email: bgfox@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering
Paul D. Friesen
Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-7774
Email: pfriesen@wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons
Colleen E. Hayes
Professor
Phone: (608) 263-6387
Email: hayes@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular mechanisms that regulate immune responses
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Associate Professor
Email: khenzler@biochem.wustl.edu
Research Area: Dynamics and Function of Integral Membrane Proteins, Secondary Active Transport, Ion Channels
Aaron Hoskins
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-3101
Email: ahoskins@wisc.edu
Research Area: Elucidating biochemical mechanisms in eukaryotic RNA metabolism with chemistry, biology, and single molecule analysis
Laura L. Kiessling
Steenbock Professor of Chemistry
Phone: (608) 262-0541
Email: kiessling@chem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Biomolecular recognition processes; the chemistry and biology of protein-saccharide interactions
Judith Kimble
Vilas Professor
Phone: (608) 262-6188
Email: jekimble@wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular regulation of animal development
Robert Landick
Professor
Phone: (608) 265-8475
Email: landick@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
John L. Markley
Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure (also Director of NMRFAM and BMRB)
Phone: (608) 263-9349
Email: markley@nmrfam.wisc.edu
Research Area: NMR spectroscopy and its biological applications; structure function relationships in proteins; stable-isotope-assisted multinuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; processing and analysis of multi-dimensional NMR data; structural genomics; metabolomics
Thomas F. J. Martin
Wasson Professorship in Biochemistry of Higher Animals
Phone: (608) 263-2427
Email: tfmartin@wisc.edu
Research Area: Mechanisms of hormone action; signal transduction and second messengers; regulation of hormone and neurotransmitter secretion; inositol phospholipid biochemistry
Julie Mitchell
Professor of Biochemistry and Mathematics
Phone: (608) 432-5853
Email: mitchell@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Predictive models of molecular interactions and protein design
James M. Ntambi
Katherine Berns Von Donk Steenbock Professor (also Chair, Department of Nutritional Sciences)
Phone: (608) 265-3700
Email: ntambi@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Genetic regulation of metabolism: the stearoyl-CoA desaturase genes
David J. Pagliarini
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-3254
Email: pagliarini@wisc.edu
Research Area: Mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism; cell signaling; proteomics
Ann C. Palmenberg
Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-7519
Email: acpalmen@wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses; protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis; viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based sequence analysis
J. Wesley Pike
Professor
Phone: (608) 262-8229
Email: pike@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skeleton
Ronald T. Raines
Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-8588
Email: rtraines@wisc.edu
Research Area: Chemical biology, protein chemistry and engineering, enzymology, biofuels
John Ralph
Professor (also Biological Systems Engineering & D.O.E. Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center)
Phone: (608) 890-2429
Email: jralph@wisc.edu
Research Area: Plant cell wall structure, biosynthesis and utilization
Ivan Rayment
Michael G. Rossmann Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-0437
Research Area: Molecular basis of protein function
M. Thomas Record, Jr.
Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences
Phone: (608) 262-5332
Email: mtrecord@wisc.edu
Research Area: Protein-nucleic acid interactions, including kinetics and mechanism of transcription initiation, characterization of DNA wrapping in protein DNA complexes, development of small molecule solutes as thermodynamic and mechanistic probes of protein and DNA conformational changes.
Alessandro Senes
Associate Professor
Phone: (608) 890-2584
Email: senes@wisc.edu
Research Area: Biochemical and computational studies of membrane protein interactions
Michael R. Sussman
Professor (also Director of UW Biotechnology Center)
Phone: (608) 262-8608
Email: msussman@wisc.edu
Research Area: Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana.
Douglas B. Weibel
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 890-1342
Email: weibel@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Microbial biochemistry and engineering
Marvin P. Wickens
Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-8007
Email: wickens@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology
Jill C. Wildonger
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-4619
Email: wildonger@wisc.edu
Research Area: Characterizing how discrete functional domains in neurons are created by investigating how proteins are trafficked; combining in vitro approaches with in vivo live-cell imaging in the developing fruit fly
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