Physiology & Biophysics
Our research encompasses many facets of cell biology, molecular and cellular physiology, structural biology, and molecular biophysics.
To achieve our goal of improving the fundamental scientific basis that supports translational research, students participate in faculty-led state-of-the-art research in cellular physiology and molecular biophysics.
- Christopher W. Akey, PhD
Research interests: Structural Biology of Channels and Chaperones - David Atkinson, PhD
Research interests: Plasma Lipoproteins: Structure and Biology - Esther Bullitt, PhD
Research interests: Bacterial Adhesion and Viral Replication - M. Carter Cornwall, PhD
Research interests: Visual Transduction and Adaptation - Christopher Gabel, PhD
Research interests: Neural Regeneration and Neurocircuitry in C. elegans - J. Fernando Garcia-Diaz, PhD
Research interests: Expression and Modulation of Ion Channels - Olga Gursky, PhD
Research interests: Protein Conformation, Structure, and Energetics - James A. Hamilton, PhD
Research interests: Structural Biology of Membranes in Native and Pathological States - James F. Head, PhD
Research interests: Structural Studies of Protein-Protein and Protein-Ligand Interactions - Haya Herscovitz, PhD
Research interests: Assembly, Chaperone-Assisted Folding, and Secretion of Lipoproteins - William J. Lehman, PhD
Research interests: Electron Microscopy and 3D Reconstruction of Actin Thin Filaments - Simon Levy, PhD
Research interests: Calcium Signaling in Nerve Cells - Assen Marintchev, PhD
Research interests: Eukaryotic Translation Initiation and NMR - C. James McKnight, PhD
Research interests: Protein Structure, Function, Folding, and NMR Spectroscopy - Jeffrey R. Moore, PhD
Research interests: Cell Motility and Motor Proteins - Judith D. Saide, PhD
Research interests: Structural Proteins of Drosophila Flight Muscle - Barbara A. Seaton, PhD
Research interests: X-ray Crystallography and Protein-Membrane Interactions - G. Graham Shipley, PhD, DSc
Research interests: Membrane and Receptor Biology - Donald M. Small, MD
Research interests: Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Disease - Raphael A. Zoeller, PhD
Research interests: Functional Roles of Lipids in Cell and Membrane Biology
Please visit our research facilities website for more detail on our laboratories for NMR (both spectroscopy and imaging), X-ray diffraction and cryo-crystallography, electron cryo-microscopy and 3-D image reconstruction, micro-spectroscopy, calorimetry, light and fluorescence microscopy, optical tweezers, surface chemistry, electrophysiology, tissue culture, and molecular biology.
