Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Nucleic Acids (RNA DNA)

• 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

• Modified/labeled DNA fragments: synthesis and characterization

• Structural & Mechanistic Biology; Protein Dynamics & Allostery

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

• Physics and physical chemistry of biopolymers

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

• Membrane mimetic/micellar/association colloid chemistry, chemical trapping via arenediazonium ions/reaction mechanisms