Faculty

Research Focus: Plant metabolic regulation and engineering.

Research Focus: Mechanistic dissection of signal transduction strategies in plant and understanding the molecular and cellular processes that underlie male-female interaction and polarized cell growth in plant reproduction.

Research Focus: Protein degradation and unfolding; protein quality control.

Research Focus: Scholarship of teaching and learning.

Research Focus: Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core Facility

Research Focus: Structural biology of glycoproteins in human disease.

Research Focus: Protein folding in the cell.

Research Focus: Pore-forming toxins and translocation of virulence factors in bacterial pathogenesis.

Research Focus: Fungal genomics, fungal-host interactions, and the development of novel antifungals.

Research Focus: Biological chemistry of plant natural products.

Research Focus: Bacterial stress response, metabolic shut-down, signal transduction, gene regulatory networks.

Research Focus: Scholarship of teaching and learning, skeletal muscle function

Research Focus: Cellular and peroxisomal quality control systems

Research Focus: Understanding synapses in the human brain

Research Focus: Mechanisms of protein misfolding, aggregation, and spread in neurodegenerative disease.

Research Focus: Trypanosome metabolism and biochemistry; malate dehydrogenase regulation; comparative enzymology of MDH.

Research Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanism of memory formation by dissecting the function and structural regulation of CaMKII and its substrates/ binding partners.

Research Focus: Undergraduate education; genetics, genomics, cell walls, and developmental biology of plants

Research Focus: Molecular chaperones, stress responses, and nitric oxide metabolism in plants.

Research Focus: Mechanisms of intracellular symbiosis between eukaryotic legume hosts and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Research Focus: Signal transduction pathways in the regulation of plant hormone responses and reproduction.