Specialties

Biological chemistry

Daniel K. Kim
Organic, Inorganic, Biological
Developing synthetic methodologies to tackle challenges in organic synthesis and biology: biocatalysis, transition metal catalysis, synthesis, and chemical biology
Michael L. Klein
Theory/Computation
Theoretical and computational methods to study solids, liquids and assemblies of macromolecules, including those relevant to living organisms
Ronald M. Levy
Theory/Computation
​Computer simulations, statistical mechanics, and modeling to study the structure, function, folding, and dynamics of proteins in solution
Carol M. Manhart
​Biological
Biochemistry, enzymology, protein-nucleic acid interactions, protein-protein interactions, enzyme kinetics, structural biochemistry, biophysics. Study of enzymes that are therapeutic targets and that have biotechnological applications.
Robert Stanley
Physical/Analytical, Biological
Light-driven DNA repair by DNA photolyase: ultrafast mechanism, enzymology, mutagenesis; excited state electronic properties of flavins and flavoproteins: Stark spectroscopy; photophysical properties of fluorescent nucleic base analogs: probes of energy flow in DNA
Ann M. Valentine
Inorganic, Biological
​​Bioinorganic chemistry: hydrolytically sensitive metal ions and how biology handles them. Metal uptake and transport, potential therapeutic applications, and biomineralization.
Vincent Voelz
​Theory/Computation
Molecular simulations to understand protein folding, conformational dynamics and peptidomimetic design; statistical thermodynamics, bayesian inference, kinetic network models, distributed computing
Rongsheng (Ross) Wang
Biological, Organic
Chemical biology, bioorganic chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry: interdisciplinary approaches to elucidate novel biological mechanisms underlying cancer and inflammatory diseases, and to develop related diagnostic and therapeutic agents