Structural Biology Researchers


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Samuel E. Butcher

Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure
Phone: (608) 263-3890
Research Area: Structural biology of RNA interactions that regulate gene expression
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Scott M. Coyle

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

Jean V. Thomas Professor in Biochemistry
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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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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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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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

Associate 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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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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Elizabeth R. Wright

Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry (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.