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Biochemistry & Cell Biology

People of the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Mike Airola portraitMike Airola

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the BSB Graduate Program - Co-Director ASBMB Lipid Research Division

Research: Membrane biochemistry, lipid metabolism and transport, cancer and antifungal drug development

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Ivet Bahar portraitIvet Bahar

Professor

Leadership Positions: Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair of Physical and Quantitative Biology - Director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Research: Bridging Structure and Function, via Dynamics

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Vitaly Citovsky portraitVitaly Citovsky

Distinguished Professor

Research: Intercellular transport, genetic transformation, and chromatin remodeling in plants

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Neta Dean portraitNeta Dean

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the BCB Masters Program

Research: Protein glycosylation and cell wall biosynthesis in yeast and fungi

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Steven Glynn portraitSteven Glynn

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the Center for Structural Biology

Research: Structure and mechanism of protein-unfolding machines in mitochondria

Bernadette Holdener portraitBernadette Holdener

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of Undergraduate Biochemistry Studies

Research: Understanding how defects in glycosylation lead to birth defects

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Chi-Kuo Hu portraitChi-Kuo Hu

Assistant Professor

Research: Biology of dormancy during development and aging, with the African killifish as the main research organism

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Wali Karzai portraitWali Karzai

Professor

Leadership Positions: Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Research: Biochemical, structural, and mechanistic explorations of protein and RNA homeostasis

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Jae Ho Lee portraitJae Ho Lee

Assistant Professor

Research: Linking ribosome translation kinetics to protein biogenesis and homeostasis

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Erwin London portraitErwin London

Distinguished Professor

Research: Structure, organization, and function of membrane proteins and membrane lipids

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Benjamin Martin portraitBenjamin Martin

Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of the MCB Graduate Program

Research: Stem cell maintenance and differentiation, Developmental mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis

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Dada Pisconti portraitDada Pisconti

Associate Professor

Research: Muscle stem cells; muscle development, regeneration and aging; muscular dystrophy; extracellular matrix; biology of proteoglycans

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Keith Sheppard portraitKeith Sheppard

Associate Professor

Leadership Positions: Director of Science Education

Research: Three areas of science education - all with the fundamental aim of improving the teaching and learning of science at every level of education

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