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CB & MB Faculty

Genome integrity and Expression
Campbell, Chong, Fianu, Semlow

Proteome integrity, function, and organization
Chong, Clemons, Hoelz, Hsieh-Wilson, Shan

Membrane Biology
Clemons, Hoelz, Morstein, Rees, Shan

Post-translational modifications and cellular signaling
Chong, Clemons, Hoelz, Hsieh-Wilson, Morstein, Shan

Protein engineering and molecular medicine
Arnold, Clemons, Hoelz, Hsieh-Wilson, Mayo, Morstein, Shan, Shapiro, Wei

Structural Biology
Clemons, Fianu, Hoelz, Shan, Rees

Single molecule Biophysics
Chong, Fianu, Shan, Wei

Molecular Cell Biology
Campbell, Chong, Fianu, Hoelz, Semlow

Chemical Probes for Biological discovery
 Clemons, Hsieh-Wilson, Wei

Computation
Clemons, Goddard, Mayo

Frances H. Arnold
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center
Biocatalysis, protein engineering, enzyme evolution, synthetic biology
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Judith L. Campbell
Professor of Chemistry and Biology
DNA replication in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae dynamics in signaling transductions and exploring biological interactions in single cells
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Shasha Chong
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar
Transcription; intrinsically disordered regions; single-molecule imaging and biophysics; cancer biology
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William M. (Bil) Clemons, Jr.
Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Biochemistry
Membrane protein structure; protein synthesis and translocation; X-ray crystallography
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Isaac Fianu
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Gene regulation and genome stability
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William A. Goddard
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics
Quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, statistical physics: simulation and design of biological, polymer, ceramic, and metal systems; Reaction mechanisms in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis; Prediction of Protein Structure and Function; Nanotechnology, bionanotechnology
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André Hoelz
Mary and Charles Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Structure-function studies of the nuclear pore complex and the histone-modifying machinery; X-ray crystallography
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Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson
Milton and Rosalind Chang Professor of Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor
Synthetic and combinatorial chemistry; neurobiology; protein structure and function
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Rustem F. Ismagilov
Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine
Global Health; Microbial communities and biophysics of the gut microbiome; Diagnostics and antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Microfluidics and single molecule and single cell analysis;   Complex Networks of reactions, cells and organisms
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Stephen L. Mayo
Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor
Protein design, structure, and stability; computer simulation techniques
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Johannes Morstein
Incoming Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Lipid and Membrane Chemical Biology
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Carl S. Parker
Professor of Biochemistry
Molecular Mechanisms controlling gene expression
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Douglas C. (Doug) Rees
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Protein Structure and Energetics; X-ray Crystallography
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Daniel Semlow
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar
DNA replication and repair; nucleic acid chemistry
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Shu-ou Shan
Altair Professor of Chemistry; Executive Officer for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Molecular machines in protein folding, targeting, and quality control; mechanism and engineering of molecular chaperones
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Mikhail G. Shapiro
Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Molecular and cellular engineering; Non-invasive imaging and control of biological function; Cell and gene therapy; Neuroscience; Cancer; Nanotechnology; Synthetic biology
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Lu Wei
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Ronald and JoAnn Willens Scholar
Optical spectroscopy and microscopy, Biophysics, Bio-imaging, Chemical probe development.
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