The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemical Biology Faculty
| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Ryan C. Bailey | Multiparameter analysis of disease-altered tissues, analytical immunochemistry, biological surface chemistry, resonant optical microcavities, nanoscale plasmonics |
| Martin D. Burke | synthesis and study of small molecules with protein-like functions |
| Robert B. Gennis | protein-lipid interactions, membrane-bound enzymes, bioenergetics, cytochromes |
| John A. Gerlt | mechanistic enzymology, proton transfer in carbon acids, mutagenesis with natural and unnatural amino acids, protein engineering, basic studies on hydrogen bonding |
| Martin Gruebele | time-resolved spectroscopy applied to biological systems; protein folding dynamics |
| Paul J. Hergenrother | Design, synthesis, and evaluation of organic molecules with novel biological properties; synthetic organic chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; enzyme engineering; chemical genetics |
| John A. Katzenellenbogen | synthetic methods and combinatorial chemistry; steroids and steroid receptor structure and function using biochemical, molecular, and biophysical methods; ligand and inhibitor design, synthesis and evaluation; affinity-labeling, radiopharmaceuticals, tumor imaging agents |
| Deborah E. Leckband | |
| Yi Lu | design of metalloproteins and their application in electron transfer and biocatalysis; asymmetric catalysis using metalloenzymes; study of metal-binding sites in DNA/RNA enzymes |
| Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten | computational studies of biomolecular energy landscapes to explore the evolution of structure, folding and function |
| Douglas A. Mitchell | molecular underpinnings of bacterial virulence, natural product biosynthesis |
| Chad M. Rienstra | study of membrane protein structure, dynamics, and function by solid-state NMR; development of new experimental methodology and instrumentation |
| Alexander Scheeline | nonlinear systems, oscillatory reactions, free radical dynamics |
| Scott K. Silverman | DNA as a catalyst |
| Stephen G. Sligar | macromolecular recognition, protein folding and dynamics, biomolecular devices, electron transport and dioxygen metabolism |
| Jonathan V. Sweedler | analytical neurochemistry, dynamic studies of subcellar neurotransmitter distribution and release, ultra-trace peptide analysis |
| Wilfred A. van der Donk | mechanistic enzymology of metalloenzymes; molecular biology; antibiotic biosynthesis; dechlorinase enymes; bioremediation synthesis of peptide conjugates |
| *Taekjip Ha | Use of physical concepts and experimental techniques to study fundamental questions in molecular biology. |
| *Huimin Zhao | protein engineering, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics and high throughput technologies such as directed evolution and protein microarrays. |
Other faculty with interests in Chemical Biology include:
| Steve Granick | Eric Oldfield |
| Thomas B. Rauchfuss | Kenneth S. Suslick |
| Steven C. Zimmerman |
