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Core MCB Faculty Profiles:

• James Allen, Associate Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. Structural biophysics in photosynthesis; X-ray crystallography.
  
• Ralph Backhaus, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., California, Davis, 1977. Biology of rubber formation; lipid peroxidation and signaling; plant tissue culture.
  
• Robert E. Blankenship, Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1975. Biophysics of photosynthesis; biological electron transfer reactions; evolution of energy conserving systems.
  
• David G. Capco, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1980. Cell and developmental biology; Protein kinase C intracellular signals and their role in the cell cycle; mammalian development, cytoskeletal regulation in mammalian cells.
  
• Douglas E. Chandler, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California, San Francisco, 1977. Cell biology; fertilization in echinoderm and amphibian eggs; calcium signals and exocytosis; freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
  
• Yung Chang, (Microbiology), Ph.D., University of Iowa, MD Beijing Medical University. Developmental Immunology: Control of VDJ recombination in the lymphocyte development.
  
• Wilson A. Francisco, Assistant Professor (Chemistry & Biochemistry); Ph.D., Tesas A & M. Mechanism of action of metalloenzymes; protein structure.
  
• Wayne D. Frasch, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Kentucky, 1979. The mechanism of the F1-ATPase molecular motor probed by molecular genetics, and by microscopy to view rotation of single enzyme subunits; biophysical studies of the participation of the metal cofactor in the F1-ATPase mechanism.
  
• Elliott S. Goldstein, Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Minnesota, 1972. Genetics; developmental regulation; regulation of gene expression in Drosophila .
  
• Jeffrey R. Hazel, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971. Physiology; thermal adaptations of poikilotherms; regulation of membrane function and lipid metabolism.
  
• Steven A. Hoffman, Associate Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder, 1975. Neuroimmunology; Mind/Brain/Immunity; CNS involvement in Autoimmunity; Molecular/Cellular Basis of Neuro-Immune Circuitry; Autoimmune Diseases.
  
• J. Kenneth Hoober, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Michigan, 1965. Biogenesis of chloroplast membranes; photoregulation of gene expression in plants and bacteria; role of proteases in development of cell structure.
  
• Bertram L. Jacobs, Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1981. Molecular virology; antiviral mechanisms of interferon action; translational control of gene expression.
  
• Sudhir Kumar, (Biology) Ph.D., Penn State U. Molecular evolutionary genetics with emphasis on (1) development of statistical tools for large data set and genome analyses, and (2) the studies of patterns of gene and genome evolution.
  
• Dennis Lohr, Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970. Nucleosome structure; control of gene expression in yeast; higher order structure of chromatin by AFM.
  
• Christian Lorson , Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D., University of Missouri Medical School, 1997. Molecular Genetics of neuromuscular disorders; RNA processing/splicing; transcription regulation; protein-protein interactions.
  
• Stephen Massia, Associate Professor (Biomedical Engineering); Ph.D., U of Texas,1992. Cell-Biomaterial Interactions, Biomimetic surface modifications for biomaterials, local drug and gene therapy for improved implant performance, tissue engineered cardiovascular and neural implants.
  
• Robert W. McGaughey, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Boston University, 1968. Developmental biology; mammalian reproduction; regulation of oogenesis and early development.
  
• Rajeev Misra, Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Adelaide (Australia),1986. Targeting and assembly of bacterial outer membrane proteins; secretion of toxin and antibiotic resistance in bacteria; biology of host (bacterial cell) and parasite (bacterial viruses) interactions; and channel proteins.
  
• Stuart Newfeld, Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Emory, 1992. Molecular Genetics; Intercellular signaling during development.
  
• Miles Orchinik Assistant Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Oregon State,1992. Neuroendocrine regulation of behavior; mechanisms of steroid hormone action; neurobiology of stress.
  
• Alyssa Panitch, Assistant Professor(Bioengineering) Molecular biology to design and synthesize novel materials for use as artificial extra-cellular matrices, newly synthesized proteins are then purified from E.coli and tested for drug delivery, support of mammalian cell adhesion, proliferation and differentiation.
  
• Alan Rawls, Assistant Professor (Biology); PhD., St. Louis (MO) 1993. Identifying the regulatory factors that control epithelialization during somitogenesis.
  
• Anneta Razatos, Assistant Professor (Chemical and Materials Engineering); Ph.D. Texas at Austin, 1999. Bacterial adhesion and biofilms, genetic engineering to identify genes involved in adhesion and biofilm formation.
  
• David Rhoads, Associate Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Michigan, 1992. Molecular genetic approach to identify components of the regulatory system in higher plants that controls the expression of nuclearly-encoded, mitochondrial protein genes (NEMP genes).
  
• Robert W. Roberson, Associate Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Georgia, 1989. Biology of hyphal growth and spore development in fungi.
  
• Seth Rose, Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., California, San Diego, 1974. Anticancer drug design based on farnesyltransferase inhibition.
  
• Richard A. Satterlie, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1978. Neurobiology; control of locomotion in invertebrates; pattern generation; neuromuscular organization.
  
• Jean C. Schmidt, Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1965. Biology of budding and appendaged bacteria; molecular prokaryotic systematics; anticancer drug discovery.
  
• Georgia F. Smith, Associate Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California, Riverside, 1979. Genetics; regulation of gene expression by interferons.
  
• Greg D. Smith, Assistant Professor (Mathematics) Ph.D. U of CA, Davis, 1996. Mathematical aspects of neurophysiology and cellular biophysics, neuronal network models of sensory filtering by visual thalamus, mathematical aspects of global and local calcium signaling in neurons and myocytes.
  
• Valerie Stout, Associate Professor (Microbiology); Ph.D., Kansas State, 1987. Biofilm development as related to urinary tract infections; role of exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and regulation in biofilm development.
  
• Jean C. Stutz, Associate Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Penn State, 1981. Interactions of plant pathogenic fungi and plants; plant cell wall proteins and disease resistance.
  
• Richard N. Trelease, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1969. Plant cell and molecular biology; organelle biogenesis; targeting of intracellular protein and membrane components to oilseed peroxisomes.
  
• Willem F. J. Vermaas, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D, Agricultural University (Netherlands), 1984. Functional genomics of photosynthesis and respiration; protein engineering and metabolic engineering; pigment biosynthesis; molecular genetics of cyanobacteria.
  
• Andrew N. Webber, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Essex (England), 1984. Synthesis and assembly of photosynthetic membrane protein complexes; chloroplast transformation and gene regulation; plant molecular biology.
  
• Neal Woodbury, Associate Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Washington (Seattle), 1986. Specific mutagenesis of bacterial reaction centers; ultrafast spectroscopy of energy and electron transfer in photosynthesis; single molecule spectroscopy of DNA/protein interactions; directed evolution of green fluorescent protein based biosensors.

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