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Richard M. Amasino

Carlos O. Miller Professor of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Phone: (608) 265-2170
Research Area: Regulation of plant development; mechanisms of floral induction
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Alan D. Attie

Jack Gorski Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-1372
Research Area: Genetics of Diabetes, beta-cell biology, lipid metabolism
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Sebastian Y. Bednarek

Professor
Phone: (608) 263-0309
Research Area: Plant cell biology; intracellular protein trafficking, membrane biogenesis
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Samuel E. Butcher

Professor
Phone: (608) 263-3890
Research Area: Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
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Jason R. Cantor

Assistant Professor (also with the Morgridge Institute for Research, Affiliate, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)
Phone: (608) 316-4565
Research Area: Studies human cell metabolism and how it is impacted by environmental factors
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Michael M. Cox

Evelyn M. Mercer Professor in Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-1181
Research Area: Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair
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Scott M. Coyle

Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-1342
Research Area: Understanding and engineering microscale molecular and cellular machines
Elizabeth A. Craig

Elizabeth A. Craig

Elizabeth Cavert Miller Professor, Steenbock Professor of Microbial Science
Phone: (608) 263-7105
Research Area: The function of molecular chaperones in the cell - Folding and remodeling of proteins
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Brian G. Fox

Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-9708
Research Area: Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering
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Paul D. Friesen

Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-7774
Research Area: Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons
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Timothy Grant

Assistant Professor (also with the Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 316-4569
Research Area: Studying the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules using cryo-EM
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Katherine Henzler-Wildman

Professor
Phone: (608) 890-1094
Research Area: Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
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Hazel M. Holden

Professor
Phone: (608) 262-4988
Research Area: Structure and function of enzymes
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Aaron Hoskins

Associate Professor
Phone: (608) 890-3101
Research Area: Elucidating biochemical mechanisms in eukaryotic RNA metabolism with chemistry, biology, and single molecule analysis
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Judith Kimble

Vilas Professor, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-6188
Research Area: Molecular regulation of animal development
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Robert N. Kirchdoerfer

Assistant Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-6191
Research Area: Structural and biochemical exploration of RNA virus entry and replication
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Robert Landick

Professor
Phone: (608) 265-8475
Research Area: RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
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Ci Ji Lim

Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 265-4690
Research Area: Mechanism of telomere maintenance; Structure-function studies of biological machines by cryo-EM and single-molecule imaging
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Thomas F. J. Martin

Wasson Professorship in Biochemistry of Higher Animals
Phone: (608) 263-2427
Research Area: Mechanisms of hormone action; signal transduction and second messengers; regulation of hormone and neurotransmitter secretion; inositol phospholipid biochemistry
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James M. Ntambi

Katherine Berns Von Donk Steenbock Professor (also Nutritional Sciences)
Phone: (608) 265-3700
Research Area: Genetic regulation of metabolism: the stearoyl-CoA desaturase genes
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Ann C. Palmenberg

Roland Rueckert Professor (also Institute for Molecular Virology)
Phone: (608) 262-7519
Research Area: Biology and Biochemistry of RNA picornaviruses
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J. Wesley Pike

Professor
Phone: (608) 262-8229
Research Area: Transcriptional mechanisms of steroid hormone action in the skeleton
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John Ralph

Professor (also Biological Systems Engineering and D.O.E. Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center)
Phone: (608) 890-2429
Research Area: Plant cell wall structure, biosynthesis and utilization
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Srivatsan Raman

Assistant Professor (also Bacteriology, and Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Phone: (608) 890-1036
Research Area: Systems and synthetic biology, protein design, biosensors, synthetic bacteriophages, high-throughput functional assays, sequence-function landscapes
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Ivan Rayment

Michael G. Rossmann Professor of Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-0437
Research Area: Molecular basis of protein function
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M. Thomas Record, Jr.

Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences
Phone: (608) 262-5332
Research Area: Biophysical chemistry of proteins, nucleic acids and their interactions
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Chad M. Rienstra

Professor (also Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 261-1167
Research Area: Development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics
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Philip A. Romero

Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 262-5943
Research Area: Protein engineering, computational biology, high-throughput technology
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Alessandro Senes

Professor
Phone: (608) 890-2584
Research Area: Biochemical and computational studies of membrane protein interactions
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Judith Simcox

Assistant Professor (adjunct Nutritional Sciences)
Phone: (608) 262-8588
Research Area: Inter-organ communication through lipid derived metabolites
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Michael R. Sussman

Professor
Phone: (608) 262-8608
Research Area: Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana
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Ophelia S. Venturelli

Assistant Professor (also Bacteriology and Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Phone: (608) 263-7017
Research Area: Understanding and engineering microbial communities across space and time
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Amy M. Weeks

Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-2583
Research Area: Spatially-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications; protein engineering; chemoproteomics
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Marvin P. Wickens

Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-8007
Research Area: Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology
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Elizabeth R. Wright

Professor (also Morgridge Institute for Research)
Phone: (608) 265-0666
Research Area: Develops and uses cryo-electron microscopy methods and molecular biology approaches to explore the 3D structures of viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells.