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. Roger McMacken (Department Chair) - Initiation and Regulation of DNA Replication; Mechanisms of Molecular Chaperone Action Terry Brown- Androgen Receptor Structure, Function, Expression and Transcriptional Activity; Age-dependent Changes in the Prostate; Prostate Cancer Randy Bryant - Enzymatic Mechanisms in Homologous Recombination Valeria Culotta - Metabolism of Metal Ions and Oxygen Radicals Nancy Davidson - DNA Methylation and Steroid Receptor Regulation Janice Evans - Mammalian Fertilization; Sperm-egg Binding and Fusion; Egg Activation; Oocyte Maturation; Cell Adhesion; Cytoskeleton Eric Grote - Cell-cell Fusion of Mating Yeast Les Hanakahi - Molecular Mechanisms of Double-strand Break Repair by Non-homologous End-joining J. Marie Hardwick - Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Pathogenesis P.C. Huang - Bioinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics Sharon Krag - Glycobiology; Biosynthesis of N-linked Glycoproteins David Levin - Protein Kinases and Growth Control in Yeast Thomas Kensler - Mechanisms of Cancer Chemoprevention Michael Matunis - Mechanism of Intracellular Protein Localization Paul Miller - Nucleic Acid Bioorganic Chemistry Sean Prigge - Apicoplast Organelle and its Biochemical Pathways John Scocca - Mechanisms and Control of Site-Specific Recombination Processes William Wright - Germ Cell-Sertoli Cell Interactions; Mechanisms of Sperm-zona Pellucida Recognition and Binding Barry Zirkin - Hormonal and Molecular Regulation of Leydig and Germ Cell Development, Function, and Turnover; Male Reproductive Toxicology; Aging of the Male Reproductive Tract; Male Fertility and Infertility | 
