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Department

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis

Evan R. Williams

Evan R. Williams

Dept of Chemistry

spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing

Margaux Pinney in lab setting

Dept of Chemistry

chemical biology, high-throughput biochemistry, microfluidics, evolutionary biochemistry, enzyme functional prediction/engineering/design

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins

Assistant Professor Bronwyn Lucas stands with arms crossed next to a Zeiss Crossbeam cryo-FIBSEM.

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Michael Rape in Woo Fai Han Hall

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, protein degradation, siRNA, Berkeley Screening Center

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Jonathan Rittle

Jonathan Rittle

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

Georjana Barnes

Georjana Barnes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging

Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

Robert Tjian Jacket

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development

Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Andy Martin in lab

Andy Martin

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

26S proteasome, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, AAA+ ATPases, Molecular motor proteins

photo of Donald Rio

Donald Rio

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host

Alessandra Ferrari

Dept of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition

cholesterol trafficking, lipid metabolism, non-vesicular transport, cell biology, metabolic disease

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Stephen Brohawn

Stephen Brohawn

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neurobiology, Structural Biology, biophysics

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

Alanna Schepartz

Alanna Schepartz

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, synthetic biology, organic chemistry, biophysics