| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Faculty |
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The following is an alphabetical list of MCB faculty members and brief descriptions of their research. A list of faculty by division affiliation is available here
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- Tom Alber
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure/function correlates in tuberculosis, molecular recognition and signaling - Mark Alper
- Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry; biomolecular materials - Bruce N. Ames
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of aging. Mitochondrial decay in aging. Oxidants and antioxidants in DNA damage. Micronutrient deficiencies and DNA damage. Chronic inflammation and Cancer. - Clinton E. Ballou
- Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- James Berger
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural and mechanistic biochemistry of macromolecular assemblies and machines that regulate the initiation of DNA replication and chromosome and superstructure - Carolyn R. Bertozzi
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular basis of cell surface interactions - Michael Botchan
- Department Co-Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Eukaryote gene expression - Carlos Bustamante
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies - Richard Calendar
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular genetics of viruses - Jamie H. D. Cate
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular Basis for Protein Synthesis by the Ribosome - Michelle Chang
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Enzyme catalysis and metabolic engineering - Kathleen Collins
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Telomerase, non-coding RNAs, RNA silencing - Jennifer A. Doudna
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ribozymes and RNA machines - Peter Duesberg
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Genetic structure of retroviruses - Robert Glaeser
- Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cryo-EM of multiprotein complexes; membrane proteins; structural biology; biophysics; advancing the capabilities of high-resolution cryo-EM in biology. - Alexander Glazer
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Macomolecular complexes; photosynthetic systems - Ming Hammond
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chemical Biology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, and Bioinformatics - Caroline Kane
- Professor Emerita of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Eukaryotic gene regulation during transcript elongation - Jack Kirsch
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Enzymology; site-directed mutagenesis - Judith Klinman
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Principles of catalytic and regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions - Bryan A. Krantz
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular Mechanism of Protein Translocation Across Membranes - John Kuriyan
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural and functional studies of signal transduction and DNA replication - Stuart Linn
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Enzymology of DNA metabolism - Michael Marletta
- Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure/Function Relationships in Proteins; Enzyme Catalysis; Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signaling - Susan Marqusee
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Determinants of protein structure and folding - Andreas Martin
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Energy-dependent proteases and molecular machines - Hiroshi Nikaido
- Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Membrane biochemistry; bacterial physiology - Eva Nogales
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure-function of macromolecular assemblies: cytoskeleton self-assembly and nucleic acid transactions - Daniel Portnoy
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular and cellular basis of microbial pathogenesis - Howard Schachman
- Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Physical biochemistry - Jeremy Thorner
- William V. Power Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Signal transduction mechanisms; biochemistry; molecular genetics; cell biology - Robert Tjian
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry - Ahmet Yildiz
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural mechanism of molecular motors. High resolution imaging of subcellular structures - Qing Zhong
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mechanistic Studies of Apoptosis and Autophagy in Mammals - Qiang Zhou
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry of HIV gene expression and transcriptional elongation - David Zusman
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Microbial development; molecular genetics
The following faculty have a secondary affiliation with the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology division.
- Richard Harland
- C.H. Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Molecular biology of development - G. Steven Martin
- Department Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell biology; tumor virology - Michael Rape
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Protein ubiquitination, degradation and the control of cell division and differentiation - Donald Rio
- Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
Molecular genetics; transposable elements; RNA splicing - Randy Schekman
- Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Organelle assembly; protein transport - Mark Schlissel
- Dean of Biological Sciences and Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis
The regulation of lymphocyte development, genetic transcription, chromatin structure, and V(D)J recombination.