Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Molecular Recognition

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

• Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

• Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

• Structural & Mechanistic Biology; Protein Dynamics & Allostery

• Biotechnology; synthesis of biopolymers; peptide chemistry

• Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis

• Computer studies of protein structure, function, folding and dynamics; chemical physics of liquids

• Theoretical studies of nucleic acid conformation, properties, and interactions

• Protein folding and conformational dynamics, single molecule microscopy, time resolved fluorescence, statistical information theory, amyloid formation

• Natural product total synthesis, development of synthetic vaccines, design and synthesis of complex proteins