Chemical / Molecular Diversity
Steven T. Diver, PhD
Organic synthesis; chemical synthesis; organometallic chemistry; new synthetic methods.
Joseph A. Gardella, Jr.
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.
Andrew M. Gulick, PhD
Structural Biology; X-ray Crystallography; Enzyme Mechanisms; Multi-domain protein structure; Siderophore biosynthesis; Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis; Natural Product Biosynthesis.
David Hangauer, PhD
Drug discovery; computer-aided-drug design; combinatorial chemistry; medicinal chemistry; molecular recognition.
Margaret Hollingsworth, PhD
RNA-protein complexes involved in post-transcriptional control of gene expression; chloroplast gene expression.
Janet Morrow, PhD
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.
Arnd Pralle, PhD
Protein structure and function; membrane protein dynamics; voltage-sensitive ion channels.
Frederick Sachs, PhD
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.
Roopa Thapar, PhD
Protein structure and function; RNA-protein interactions; NMR Spectroscopy; mass spectrometry.
