Biophysics and Structural Biology

Biological systems and phenomena at various scales from proteins to organs are being investigated to unearth fundamental structure-function relationships and their modifications in infectious diseases, cancer, heart diseases, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and Alzheimer’s disease.

Faculty

Blanca L. Barquera

bacterial metabolism, bioenergetics and membrane proteins, mechanistic enzymology, gut microbiota, microbial physiology

Chris Bystroff

Professor

bioinformatics, computational biology, biosensor design, vaccine design, protein structure motifs, population, contraception, systems dynamics

Susan P. Gilbert

Department Head

Cell Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry, Structure-Function Analysis of Kinesins

Lee Ligon

Associate Dean of Science for Academic Affairs

Cell Biology, Neurosocience

Robert J. Linhardt

Ann and John H. Broadbent, Jr. ’59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering

Glycoscience, Biocatalysis, Metabolic Engineering, Nanobiotechnology, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemoenzymatic Synthesis, Biochemistry and Chemical Biology, Biotechnology and Biomaterials, Organic, Medicinal and Drug Discovery, Polymers, Materials and Energy

George I. Makhatadze

Constellation Chair

bioinformatics, protein dynamics, protein folding, protein aggregation

Catherine Royer

Constellation Chair

pressure effects on biomolecules, protein folding, protein interaction networks, live cell quantitative fluorescence imaging, transcription regulation

Douglas Swank

Professor

Heart Disease, Muscle Disease, Cardiac Physiology, Muscle Physiology, Motor Proteins, Locomotion, Drosophila Genetics

Deepak Vashishth

Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor

Bone, osteoporosis, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Glycation, Diabetes, Glycation, Osteocalcin, Osteopontin, Collagen, Fracture, entrepreneurship, biotechnology

Leo Q. Wan

Associate Professor

David T. Corr

Associate Professor

Eric Ledet

Professor

Orthopedics, Biomechanics, Spine

Georges Belfort

Institute Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Member, National Academy of Engineering

Membrane separation processes, Transport phenomena, Interfacial phenomena and rheology, Bioseparations and sensors, Protein misfolding and aggregation, Intein technology

Shekhar Garde

Dean of School of Engineering, Elaine and Jack S. Parker Professor

Angel Garcia

Professor of Physics and Senior Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics

Biological, Dynamics, Molecules, Physics, Structure, Theoretical

Wilfredo Colón

Professor, Department Head

• biological roles of degradation-resistant proteins, • degradation-resistant proteins in amyloid diseases, • development and application of methods for the proteomics-level identification of hyper-stable proteins