Training Faculty

The list below includes the names of our training and teaching faculty, as well as short descriptions of their research interests. To find out more about one of these faculty members, or for a listing of all Biochemistry and Molecular Biology faculty and affiliates, go to our Faculty Pages and click on the faculty member's last name.

Pierre Coulombe (Department Chair) - Epithelial differentiation and homeostasis during stress and in disease states

Scott Bailey - Structure/function studies of genome integrity

Jürgen Bosch - Studies on invasion and egress of the malaria parasite

Terry Brown - Androgen receptor structure, function, expression and transcriptional activity; age-dependent changes in the prostate; prostate cancer

Randy Bryant - Enzymatic mechanisms in bacterial DNA recombination

Valeria Culotta - Metabolism of metal ions and oxygen radicals

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa - Control of ovarian stem cells and their differentiating progeny by diet, insulin, and other systemic signals; molecular mechanisms of meiotic maturation; Drosophila model system

Janice Evans - Mammalian fertilization; sperm-egg binding and fusion; egg activation; oocyte maturation; cell adhesion; cytoskeleton

Eric Grote - Cell-cell fusion of mating yeast

J. Marie Hardwick - Molecular mechanisms of viral pathogenesis

P.C. Huang - Bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics

Thomas Kensler - Mechanisms of cancer chemoprevention

Michael Matunis - Mechanism of intracellular protein localization

Roger McMacken - Molecular mechanisms of initiation and regulation of chromosomal DNA replication; mechanisms by which molecular chaperones mediate remodeling of stable nucleoprotein assemblies

Paul Miller - Nucleic acid chemistry and biochemistry

Sean Prigge - Apicoplast organelle and its biochemical pathways

Jiou Wang - Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and protein quality control

William Wright - Germ cell-Sertoli cell interactions; mechanisms of sperm-zona pellucida recognition and binding

Barry Zirkin - Leydig and stem cell aging; male fertility and infertility; reproductive toxicity