Weinberg College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Professors | Associate Professors | Assistant Professors
Professors -
Robert A. Holmgren (BMBCB) - combines genetic and structure-function studies to examine the activites of various domains of the Ci protein (a transcription factor that is a downstream target of the Drosophila Hedgehog [Hh] signalling pathway)
Joseph W. Jerome (Mathematics) - nonlinear analysis, approximation theory, partial differential equations, modeling and computation in science and engineering (e.g., charge transport)
Alfonso Mondragon (BMBCB) - crystallographic studies of DNA topoisomerases and protein-nucleic acid interactions; since topoisomerases are the targets of several antimicrobial and cancer drugs, our work will also affect the design of more effective therapeutic agents
Richard I. Morimoto (BMBCB) - regulation and function of molecular chaperones using genetic and biochemical approaches
Joseph S. Takahashi (Neurobiology and Physiology) - molecular neurobiology and genetics of circadian clocks using mouse models
Jonathan Widom (BMBCB) - focuses on the structure and function of chromosomes and related protein-DNA complexes and is working to answer fundamental questions concerning physico-chemical basis of gene regulation through quantitative studies on a single living cells
Sandy L. Zabell (Statistics) - principal research interests revolve around mathematical probability (in particular, large deviation theory) and Baysian statistics (in particular, the study of exchangeability)
Associate Professors -
Wenxin Jiang (Statistics) - Mathematical Statistics; Biostatistics; Statistical and Computational Learning Theory; recent works include recurrent events analysis in the area of biostatistics; and theoretical aspects of mixtures and hierarchical mixtures of experts in the area of statistical learning
Linda A. Hicke (BMBCB) - down regulation of signal transducing receptors
Andreas Matoushek (BMBCB) - the mechanism by which proteins are unfolded by translocases and proteases
Ishwar Radhakrishnan (BMBCB) - methods for automated analysis of macromolecular interactions; structure, function, dynamics, and informatics of macromolecular complexes; molecular mechanisms of ubiquitin recognition in endocytosis
Amy C. Rowenzweig (BMBCB) - metal trafficking; dioxygen activation; antibiotic biosynthesis
Nelson Spruston (Neurobiology and Physiology) - dendritic integration in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Assistant Professors -
Gregory Beitel (BMBCB) - use of molecular, biochemical and genetic approaches to understanding organ morphogenesis and development in Drosophila; robotic high throughput screening to investigate the protein interaction networks that underlie these processes; data generated by the protein interaction screens is analyzed using bioinformatic and computational approaches, and predictions tested in vivo using the powerful genetic tools available for Drosophila
Hongmei Jiang (Statistics) - developing statistical and computational methodologies; developing multiple testing procedures for a large number of hypothesis tests, i.e. whole genome microarray investigations
Ji-Ping Z. Wang (Statistics) - research is motivated by problems in bioinformatics and genetics; expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis, nucleosome DNA sequence alignment and position prediction, microarray data analysis, mixture model, species richness estimation and capture-recapture problem
Eric Weiss (BMBCB, adjunct in CBB) - phenotypic analysis and proteome-scale investigation of potential phosphorylation targets; protein kinase signalling pathway coordination of cytoskeleton organization, membrane traffic, and gene expression in defining cell architecture