Program Faculty

FacultyResearch AreaEmail
Oscar Alzate Cell and Developmental Biology, Neuroproteomics and Neurodegeneration alzate@email.unc.edu
Aravind Asokan Genetics, Synthetic virology, gene therapy, virus-host interactions aravind_asokan@med.unc.edu
Max Berkowitz Chemistry, Surface hydration; Computational chemistry maxb@unc.edu
Kerry Bloom Biology, Molecular Biology; Chromosome and Spindle Dynamics Kerry_Bloom@unc.edu
Robert Bourret Microbiology, Molecular mechanism of signal transduction in bacteria bourret@med.unc.edu
Sharon Campbell Biochemistry and Biophysics, Structure/function of signaling proteins; Multi-D NMR campbesl@med.unc.edu
Charlie Carter Biochemistry and Biophysics, Structural basis for tRNA synthase function; molecular evolution; X-ray diffraction carter@med.unc.edu
Xian Chen Biochemistry and Biophysics, Proteomics and Mass Spectroscopy xian_chen@med.unc.edu
Richard Cheney Physiology, Cellular motor proteins; The myosin superfamily cheneyr@med.unc.edu
Edward Collins Microbiology and Immunology, MHC Complex protein folding; X-ray crystallography edward_collins@med.unc.edu
Joe Costello Cell Biology and Anatomy, Intercellular junctions; Lens Structure; Electron microscopy mjc@med.unc.edu
Nikolay Dokholyan Biochemistry and Biophysics, Associate Director MCBP; Computational structural biology dokh@email.unc.edu
Tim Elston Pharmacology, Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems telston@med.unc.edu

Dorothy Erie

 Chemistry, Structure of nucleic acid-protein complexes /Transcription regulation derie@email.unc.edu
Michael Falvo Physics, Physics of Supramolecular Protein Complexes; Cell Structure falvo@physics.unc.edu
Chris Fecko Chemistry, Physical Properties of Biological Systems; Optical Microscopy Techniques cfecko@unc.edu
Gary Glish Chemistry, Mass spectrometry of proteins and biomolecules glish@unc.edu
Jack Griffith Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry & visualization of protein-DNA interactions jdg@med.unc.edu
Klaus Hahn Pharmacology, Tools to Study Signaling Dynamics khahn@med.unc.edu
Ken Jacobson Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cell locomotion; Membrane dynamics frap@med.unc.edu
Michael Jarstfer Medicinal Chemistry, Enzyme function, drug-discovery, and biotechnology jarstfer@email.unc.edu
Hengming Ke Biochemistry and Biophysics, X-ray protein crystallography hke@med.unc.edu
Brian Kuhlman Biochemistry and Biophysics, Computational protein design / protein-protein interactions / structural biology bkuhlman@med.unc.edu
Alain Laederach Biology, Disease-associated mutations and their effect on RNA Structure alain@unc.edu
David Lawrence Chemistry, Chemical Biology lawrencd@email.unc.edu
Andrew Lee Medicinal Chemistry, Protein, Structure and Dynamics, NMR Spectroscopy drewlee@unc.edu
Jian Liu Medicinal Chemistry, Principles of heparin sulfate structural organization; Polysaccharide chemistry liuj@email.unc.edu
Barry Lentz Biochemistry and Biophysics, Director MCBP; Platelet membrane/blood coagulation; Membrane fusion uncbrl@med.unc.edu
William Marzluff Biochemistry and Biophysics, RNA structure/RNA-protein interactions marzluf@med.unc.edu
Steve Matson Biology, DNA structure; Helicase-catalyzed unwinding of DNA smatson@unc.edu
Gerhard Meissner Biochemistry and Biophysics, Mechanism of excitation-contraction coupling in muscle meissner@med.unc.edu
Sorin Mitran Mathematics, Computation mitran@unc.edu
Saskia Neher Biochemistry, Mutation and regulation of a group of human lipases neher@email.unc.edu
Robert Nicholas Pharmacology, Structure/Function of extracellular nucleotide receptors nicholas@med.unc.edu
Amy Oldenburg Physics, Biophotonics and biomechanics aold@physics.unc.edu
Gary Pielak Chemistry, Protein structure/function using 2-D NMR gary_pielak@unc.edu
John Reader Cell and Developmental Biology, Protein translation system and in particular the molecular evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and tRNAs; The molecular evolution of nucleic acids jreader@med.unc.edu
Matthew Redinbo Cell and Developmental Biology, Protein translation system and in particular the molecular evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and tRNAs; The molecular evolution of nucleic acids redinbo@unc.edu
John Riordan Biochemistry, Structure and Function of ABC Proteins john_riordan@med.unc.edu
Michael Rubenstein Chemistry, Polymer Theory and Computer Simulations mr@unc.edu
Ed Salmon Biology, Structure/dynamics of microtubule assembly/disassembly tsalmon@email.unc.edu
Aziz Sancar Biochemistry and Biophysics, Structure and function of DNA photolyase aziz_sancar@med.unc.edu
Kevin Slep Biology, Cytoskeletal Structure and Dynamics; X-ray crystalography Kslep@bio.unc.edu
Jack Snoeyink Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems in analysis of protein folding/structure snoeyink@cs.unc.edu
John Sondek Pharmacology, Structural basis of signal transduction; X-ray crystallography sondek@med.unc.edu
Richard Superfine Physics and Astronomy, Cell surface structure; Scanning probe microscopy rsuperphysics@unc.edu
Nancy Thompson Chemistry, Cell surface immunochemistry; Fluorescence microscopy nlt@unc.edu
Alex Tropsha Medicinal Chemistry, Computer-assisted molecular modeling alex_tropsha@unc.edu
Marcey Waters Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Recognition mlwaters@email.unc.edu
Kevin Weeks Chemistry, Structure/function of RNA and protein-RNA complexes weeks@unc.edu
Richard Wolfenden Biochemistry and Biophysics, Enzyme action; Water in biological processes water@med.unc.edu
Qi Zhang Biochemistry, Molecular Basis of RNA Function; NMR qi_zhang@med.unc.edu