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CMB Faculty:
Protein Structure and Function

Zachary Burton (Ph.D., UCLA), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Regulation of promoter selection by RNA polymerase II; RNA polymerase II-associating proteins; molecular cloning of transcription factors; protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions.

David DeWitt (Ph.D. Michigan State), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Molecular and cellular biology of lipid signaling by prostaglandins.

Shelagh Ferguson-Miller (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Mechanism and regulation of energy transduction in mitochrondria and bacteria; protein chemistry of electron transfer and proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase.

James H. Geiger (Ph.D., Princeton), CHEMISTRY - Structure determination of proteins and protein-nucleic acid complexes using X-ray crystallography; the initiation and regulation of transcription in eukaryotes.

Robert P. Hausinger (Ph.D., Minnesota), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Enzymology and microbial physiology; metallocenter assembly mechanisms; nickel utilization; biodegradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds and sulfonates.

Eric L. Hegg (Ph.D., Wisconsin ), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Biosynthesis, transport, and regulation of heme and other metal cofactors; Biodiversity and assembly of novel H2 - generating enzymes; metabolism and water transport

Charles G. Hoogstraten (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison ), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Biophysical studies of RNA catalysis and RNA-protein interactions; macromolecular NMR and pulsed EPR methods and applications; mechanisms and regulation of eukaryotic mRNA splicing.

Jon Kaguni (Ph.D. Univ. of California), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - DNA replication and its regulation in Escherichia coli, protein-DNA interactions.

Laurie Kaguni (Ph.D. UCLA), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Mitochondrial molecular biology and enzymology; regulation of mitochondrial replication and expression during Drosophila development.

Katherine Osteryoung (Ph.D., Univ. of Cal., Davis), PLANT BIOOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms of plastic division in higher plants.

Jack Preiss (Ph.D., Duke), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Regulation of bacterial glycogen and plant starch biosynthesis.

William Smith (Ph.D., Michigan), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Prostaglandin biochemistry and endocrinology; G protein-linked receptors.

David P. Weliky (Ph.D., Chicago), CHEMISTRY - Solid-state NMR spectroscopy with application to biological systems and to inorganic materials at high temperatures.

Honggao Yan (Ph.D., Ohio State), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Structure-function relationships of proteins; protein engineering; enzyme catalysis; multidimensional NMR.

Tim R. Zacharewski (Ph.D., Texas A&M), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY & TOXICOLOGY CENTER - Molecular and biochemical toxicology; gene expression; endocrine disruption; functional genomics.