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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

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

protein function, Structural Biology, biochemistry, membrane proteins

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, infrastructure, soil/structure interaction, monitoring, heritage conservation, masonry structures

Gregory W. Aponte

Gregory W. Aponte

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors

picture of Robert Saxton

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, protein engineering, chemical biology, Structural Biology, inflammatory diseases

David E. Wemmer

Dept of Chemistry

nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

Tanya Paul

Haas School of Business

banking, standard-setting and financial reporting, determinants and consequences of voluntary disclosure

Michael Rape in Woo Fai Han Hall

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, protein degradation, siRNA, Berkeley Screening Center

Jamie H. D. Cate

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

Eric Neuscamman

Eric Neuscamman

Dept of Chemistry

Electronic Structure Theory, Quantum Chemistry

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 Marletta

Michael A. Marletta

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Eva Nogales in lab

Eva Nogales

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cryo-EM, biochemistry, complex biological assemblies, structure and regulation of the cytoskeleton, microtubule dynamics, human transcriptional initiation machinery, epigenetics, gene silencing, biophysics

School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Seismology, earthquakes, earthquake hazard mitigation, deep earth structure & dynamics, tomography, natural hazards