Richard M. Amasino
Carlos O. Miller Professor of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Phone: (608) 265-2170
Email: amasino@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Regulation of plant development; mechanisms of floral induction
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, lipid metabolism
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: Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
Jason R. Cantor
Assistant Professor (also with the Morgridge Institute for Research, Affiliate, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)
Phone: (608) 316-4565
Email: jrcantor2@wisc.edu
Research Area: Studies human cell metabolism and how it is impacted by environmental factors
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
Scott M. Coyle
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-1342
Email: smcoyle@wisc.edu
Research Area: Understanding and engineering microscale molecular and cellular machines
Elizabeth A. Craig
Elizabeth Cavert Miller Professor, Steenbock Professor of Microbial Science
Phone: (608) 263-7105
Email: ecraig@wisc.edu
Research Area: The function of molecular chaperones in the cell - Folding and remodeling of proteins
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
Timothy Grant
Assistant Professor (also with the Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 316-4569
Email: tim.grant@wisc.edu
Research Area: Studying the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules using cryo-EM
Katherine Henzler-Wildman
Professor
Phone: (608) 890-1094
Email: henzlerwildm@wisc.edu
Research Area: Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
Aaron Hoskins
Associate 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
Judith Kimble
Vilas Professor, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-6188
Email: jekimble@wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular regulation of animal development
Robert N. Kirchdoerfer
Assistant Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-6191
Email: rnkirchdoerf@wisc.edu
Research Area: Structural and biochemical exploration of RNA virus entry and replication
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
Ci Ji Lim
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 265-4690
Email: ciji.lim@wisc.edu
Research Area: Mechanism of telomere maintenance; Structure-function studies of biological machines by cryo-EM and single-molecule imaging
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
James M. Ntambi
Katherine Berns Von Donk Steenbock Professor (also Nutritional Sciences)
Phone: (608) 265-3700
Email: ntambi@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Genetic regulation of metabolism: the stearoyl-CoA desaturase genes
Ann C. Palmenberg
Roland Rueckert Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-7519
Email: acpalmen@wisc.edu
Research Area: Biology and Biochemistry of RNA picornaviruses
J. Wesley Pike
Professor
Phone: (608) 262-8229
Email: pike@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skeleton
John Ralph
Professor (also Biological Systems Engineering and 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
Srivatsan Raman
Assistant Professor (also Bacteriology, and Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Phone: (608) 890-1036
Email: sraman4@wisc.edu
Research Area: Systems and synthetic biology, protein design, biosensors, synthetic bacteriophages, high-throughput functional assays, sequence-function landscapes
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 & John D. Ferry Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-5332
Email: mtrecord@wisc.edu
Research Area: Biophysical chemistry of proteins, nucleic acids and their interactions
Chad M. Rienstra
Professor (also Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 261-1167
Email: crienstra@wisc.edu
Research Area: Development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics
Philip A. Romero
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 262-5943
Email: promero2@wisc.edu
Research Area: Protein engineering, computational biology, high-throughput technology
Alessandro Senes
Professor
Phone: (608) 890-2584
Email: senes@wisc.edu
Research Area: Biochemical and computational studies of membrane protein interactions
Judith Simcox
Assistant Professor (adjunct Nutritional Sciences)
Phone: (608) 262-8588
Email: jsimcox@wisc.edu
Research Area: Inter-organ communication through lipid derived metabolites
Michael R. Sussman
Professor
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
Ophelia S. Venturelli
Assistant Professor (also Bacteriology and Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Phone: (608) 263-7017
Email: venturelli@wisc.edu
Research Area: Understanding and engineering microbial communities across space and time
Amy M. Weeks
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-2583
Email: amweeks@wisc.edu
Research Area: Spatially-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications; protein engineering; chemoproteomics
Marvin P. Wickens
Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-8007
Email: mwickens@wisc.edu
Research Area: Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology
Elizabeth R. Wright
Professor (also Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 265-0666
Email: erwright2@wisc.edu
Research Area: Develops and uses cryo-electron microscopy methods and molecular biology approaches to explore the 3D structures of viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells.