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Department of Biochemistry

The Faculty

Diane Blake, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (504) 988-2478 FAX: (504) 988-2684
E-mail: blake@tulane.edu
Office: 5012; Lab: 5009
Focus: Effects of extracellular matrix on cell growth and wound healing; isolation and characterization of anti-metal antibodies

Melanie Ehrlich, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (504) 988-2449 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: ehrlich@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 466; Lab: JBJ 443, 445
Focus: Mammalian DNA methylation

David L. Hurley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (504) 988-8868 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: dlh1000@tulane.edu
Office: 6729; Lab: 6058, 6059
Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of transcriptional activation

Frank E. Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (504) 988-6585 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: fjones@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 468; Lab: JBJ 444, 461
Focus: Mouse and cellular models of signal transduction events contributing to breast cancer

Jim D. Karam, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

Phone: (504) 988-1995 FAX: (504) 988-1611
E-mail: karamoff@tulane.edu
Office: 6006; Lab: 6019, 6022
Focus: DNA replication and gene expression

Samuel J. Landry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (504) 988-3990 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: landry@tulane.edu
Office: 6055; Lab: 6155
Focus: Protein folding and protein-protein interactions

Yu-Teh Li, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (504) 988-2451 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: yli1@tulane.edu
Office: 6016; Lab: 6157
Focus: Glycobiology-catabolism of glycoconjugates

Su-Chen Li, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (504) 988-2456 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: sli4@tulane.edu
Office: 6157; Lab: 6157
Focus: Inborn errors of glycoconjugate catabolism

Arthur J. Lustig, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (504) 988-3688 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: alustig@tulane.edu
Office: 6018; Lab: 6164
Focus: Eukaryotic chromosome stability

Darwin J. Prockop, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Gene Therapy

Phone: (504) 988-7711 FAX: (504) 988-7710
E-mail: dprocko@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 677; Lab: JBJ 650, 651, 652
Focus: Development of gene therapies using adult stem cells

William C. Wimley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (504) 988-7076 FAX: (504) 988-2739
E-mail: wwimley@tulane.edu
Office: 6032; Lab: 6011, 6015
Focus: Folding, structure, and function of membrane proteins

Mentoring Faculty

Samir El-Dahr, M.D.
Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Nephrology Section
Member, New Orleans Developmental Biology Consortium

Phone: (504) 988-5377 FAX: (504) 988-1852
E-mail: seldahr@tulane.edu
Office: 5534; Lab: 5516, 5528, 5534
Focus: Transcriptional control of kidney development

Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.
Professor and Marguerite Main Zimmerman Chair in Basic Cancer Research, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Phone: (504) 988-6385 FAX: (504) 988-5516
E-mail: pdeinin@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 471 ; Lab: JBJ 405
Focus: Mobile elements in human genome stability, genetic diversity, and cancer

Charles S. Hemenway, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology Section

Phone: (504) 988-5412 FAX: (504) 988-2557
E-mail: chemenw@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 411 ; Lab: JBJ 431
Focus: Molecular biology of acute leukemias

Gary Hoyle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Phone: (504) 988-6926 FAX: (504) 988-2144
E-mail: ghoyle@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 255 ; Lab: JBJ 250A
Focus: Transgenic mouse models of lung disease

Gilbert F. Morris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

Phone: (504) 988-6953 FAX: (504) 988-5707
E-mail: gmorris2@tulane.edu
Office: JBJ 259; Lab: JBJ 260A
Focus: Molecular biology of the lung and transcriptional regulation of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen