Faculty List
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Alexandre, Gladys Associate Head, Professor Bacterial chemotaxis and motility |
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Koontz, John Professor |
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Alston, Mark Senior Lecturer |
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Labrador, Mariano Associate Professor Chromosome structure and function; chromatin boundaries: function and evolution; retroviral integrates and retroviral insertion site determination |
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Baudry, Jerome Assistant Professor Molecular modeling, molecular biophysics, drug discovery |
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McKee, Bruce Professor Genetics; chromosome structure and function; meiosis |
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Bembenek, Joshua Assistant Professor Cell division in C. elegans |
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Millhorn, David Professor UT Vice President for Research and Economic Development |
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Binder, Brad Assistant Professor Ethylene signaling in Arabidopsis |
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Mullin, Beth Professor Emerita Plant microbe interaction; Actinomycetes as nitrogen fixing symbionts |
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Bruce, Barry Professor Import of proteins into chloroplasts; molecular chaperones |
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Nebenführ, Andreas Associate Professor Cell biology of organelle movement in Arabidopsis |
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Burch-Smith, Tessa Assistant Professor The goal of research is to understand how a plastid RNA helicase regulates plamo-desmata function and development |
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Park, Jae Associate Professor Neurogenetics of biological rhythms and behavior; neurodevelopment in Drosophila |
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Das, Maitreyi Assistant Professor Study of cell shape and polarity control |
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Peterson, Cynthia Associate Dean of Academic Personnel, College of Arts and Sciences Kenneth and Blaire Mossman Professor of Biomedicine Protein folding and stability; macromolecular interactions; coagulation and fibrinolysis |
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Fernandez, Elias Associate Professor Three-dimensional structures of proteins and the relevance of these structures in biology |
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Prosser, Rebecca Professor Cellular basis of mammalian circadian rhythms |
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Ganguly, Ranjan Professor Molecular genetics of insecticide resistance, dosage compensation |
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Purnima Pinnaduwage Senior Lecturer |
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Guo, Hong Associate Professor Computational molecular and structural biology |
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Roberts, Dan Professor Calcium signaling mechanisms in plant cells; structure and function of calmodulin and calcium dependent protein kinases |
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Hall, Jim Associate Professor Neural basis of sound recognition in vertebrates; role of nitric oxide in hearing |
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Serpersu, Engin Interim Head, Professor Antibiotic-target interactions; molecular basis of substrate promiscuity and principles of ligand recognition by enzymes |
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Howell, Liz Professor Structure, function, assembly, and folding of the enzyme dihydrofolatereductase; comparison of chromosomal and R-plasmid forms |
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Shen, Tongye Assistant Professor Stability and dynamics of biomolecular structures and supramolecular assembly |
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Jain, Nitin Associate Professor Structure and functional dynamics of proteins involved in biological electron transfer and immune response using NMR; protein-protein interactions; structure-based drug design |
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Shpak, Elena Assistant Professor Plant growth and development; Signal transduction by receptor-like kinases in Arabidopsis |
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Jeon, Kwang Professor Emeritus Integration of intracellular symbionts into host cells leading to the acquisition of new cell components and cell variation; Membrane-protein recycling during endo- and exocytosis |
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Smith, Jeremy Governor's Chair and Director, UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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Joy, David Distinguished Professor Electron, optical, and scanning tip microscopes; interaction of electrons with solids |
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von Arnim, Albrecht Professor Molecular genetics of Arabidopsis; light signaling; translational regulation; in vivo protein interaction via resonance energy transfer |