Molecular Recognition in Biological Systems and Bioinformatics

Organic Synthesis; Library Synthesis; Medicinal Chemistry; Current areas of biological applications: new CNS active agents (drug abuse treatment, Antidepressants, neuroimaging agents, new antimicrobial agents, new anticancer agents); new anticancer agents.

RNA folding and targeting.

Organic synthesis; chemical synthesis; organometallic chemistry; new synthetic methods.

Mass spectrometry, electron spectrometry, vibrational spectrometry of surfaces and biomaterials; surface and thin film analysis of compound semiconductors as spintronic materials, quantum wells and quantum dots; drug delivery and release; tissue engineering; quantitative surface analysis; geospatial and multivariate statistics of surface and environmental data; environmental public policy and analytical chemistry; public service learning.

Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography; Enzyme Mechanisms; Multi-domain protein structure; Siderophore biosynthesis; Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis; Natural Product Biosynthesis.

Drug discovery; computer-aided-drug design; combinatorial chemistry; medicinal chemistry; molecular recognition.

RNA-protein complexes involved in post-transcriptional control of gene expression; chloroplast gene expression.

Protein biochemistry; structure-based drug design; bioorganic chemistry.

Ligand synthesis including dynamic combinatorial methods; lanthanide luminescence; metal ion binding and metallodrug binding sites in DNA and RNA; lanthanide-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging; kinetics and mechanistic studies on synthetic enzymes

CYP-Specific PBPK/PD Models to Interpret Biomarkers for Organophosphate Pesticides.

Protein structure and function; membrane protein dynamics; voltage-sensitive ion channels.

Protein structure and function; voltage-sensitive ion channels; mechano-sensitive ion channels; ligand gated ion channels; natural products pharmaceuticals; AFM; kinetic modeling software; anatomy; FRET; digital image processing; cell mechanics; advanced instrumentation for cell biophysics; electron microscopy; molecular biology of structural proteins; patch clamp.

Protein structure and function; RNA-protein interactions; NMR Spectroscopy; mass spectrometry.

Biochemistry; Pharmacology; Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics.