Structural Biology Researchers
Samuel E. Butcher
Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure
Phone: (608) 263-3890
Email: butcher@biochem.wisc.edu
Research Area: Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
Scott M. Coyle
Assistant Professor
Phone: (608) 890-1342
Email: smcoyle@wisc.edu
Research Area: Understanding and engineering microscale molecular and cellular machines
Brian G. Fox
Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 262-9708
Email: bgfox@wisc.edu
Research Area: Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering
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
Jean V. Thomas Professor in Biochemistry
Phone: (608) 890-1094
Email: henzlerwildm@wisc.edu
Research Area: Dynamics and function of integral membrane proteins, secondary active transport, ion channels
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
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
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
Associate 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
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
Elizabeth R. Wright
Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry (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.