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Faculty in the Biological Chemistry Program

The faculty consists of members of the Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology Departments who teach some of the courses required for those students majoring in Biological Chemistry.

Faculty member Dept. Research
Alex Burin CHEM Theoretical investigations of DNA
Larry Byers CHEM Enzyme mechanisms and regulation
Peter Cserjesi CMB Regulation of transcription in development of the peripheral nervous and cardiovascular systems
James Donahue CHEM Bioinorganic chemistry
Harry Ensley CHEM Organic synthesis of natural products
W.T. Godbey CENG Gene therapy techniques for tissue and cellular engineering
Scott M. Grayson CHEM Bio-organic chemistry
Nancy Hopkins CMB Interactions between xenobiotics and cytochrome P450 enzymes and the nuclear steroid hormone receptor superfamily
Fiona Inglis CMB Developmental neurobiology and neuronal plasticity
Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah CHEM Molecular recognition of bio-inspired systems
David Mullin CMB Microbiology
Kim O’Connor CENG Cell and tissue engineering, stem cell technology
Wayne Reed PHYS Polymer reaction kinetics and mechanisms
Igor V. Rubtsov CHEM Physical chemistry of biopolymers
Laura Schrader CMB Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and learning and memory
Molecular graphics images were produced using the UCSF Chimera package from the Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco (supported by NIH P41 RR-01081). http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera Huang, C.C., Couch, G.S., Pettersen, E.F., and Ferrin, T.E. "Chimera: An Extensible Molecular Modeling Application Constructed Using Standard Components." Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 1 :724 (1996).

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