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Molecular and Cell Biology

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University of Maryland

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Faculty

Ibrahim Z. Ades, Ph.D., UCLA, 1976. Second messengers and signal transduction pathways.

Norma M. Allewell, Ph.D. Yale University, 1969. Biochemical basis of diseases of nitrogen metabolism; functional and regulatory mechanisms of multisubunit proteins.

Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D., U. Wisconsin, 1992. Steroid regulation of development in Drosophila.

Dorothy Beckett, Ph.D., U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1986.  Molecular recognition and allostery in the multi-functional Biotin Repressor.

Spencer A. Benson, Ph.D., U. Chicago, 1978. Mechanisms of bacterial evolution and genetic regulation of function of bacterial envelopes.

Philip N. Bryan, Ph.D., U. Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1979. Protein folding and stability.

Catherine Carr, Ph.D., U. California at San Diego, 1984. Processing of temporally ordered information in the CNS.

Caren Chang, Ph.D., California Inst. of Technology, 1988. Molecular mechanisms of ethylene signal transduction in plants.

Gary D. Coleman, Ph.D., U. Nebraska, 1989. Expression and function of vegetative storage proteins in plants.

Marco Colombini, Ph.D., McGill U., 1974. The role of channels on mitochondria-mediated apoptosis.

James N. Culver, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Riverside, 1991. Molecular biology of plant viruses and plant-virus interactions.

Jeffrey J. DeStefano, Ph.D., U. Connecticut, 1990. Mechanisms of viral replication in eukaryotes.

Jonathan Dinman, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1988. Post-transcriptional control of gene expression.

Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Ph.D., University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, 1989. Archaeal molecular biology, comparative and functional genomics.

Shyam K. Dube, Ph.D., Kansas State U., 1961. Plant resistance to ultraviolet-B radiation.

Edward Eisenstein, Ph.D., Georgetown U., 1985. Control of oligomeric regulatory enzymes.

Catherine Fenselau, Ph.D., Stanford U., 1965.  Drug/protein interactions; biological mass spectrometry.

Elisabeth Gantt, Ph.D., Northwestern U., 1963. Assembly and functional development of photosynthetic membranes.

Michael Gilson, Ph.D., Columbia U., 1988, M.D., Columbia U. 1989.  Molecular modeling and computational chemistry.

Eric S. Haag, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997. Molecular and functional evolution of developmental genes.

Iqbal Hamza, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, 1998. Cell Biology and Genetics of Micronutrient Metabolism.

J. Norman Hansen, Ph.D., UCLA, 1968. Genetics and functions of bacterial peptide antibiotics.

Osnat Herzberg, Ph.D., Weizman Inst. of Science, Israel, 1982. Application of x-ray crystallography in the study of protein structure and function.

Bruce Howard, M.D., U. California at San Francisco, 1972. Regulation of cell growth with an emphasis on the roles of anti-oncogenes.

Steven W. Hutcheson, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Berkeley, 1982. Molecular events in plant-microbe interactions in bacterial pathogenesis and disease resistance.

Douglas A. Julin, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Berkeley, 1984. DNA-protein interactions in DNA repair and recombination.

Jason Kahn, Ph.D., U. California at Berkeley, 1990. Protein-nucleic acid interaction.

Zvi Kelman, Ph.D., Cornell University Medical School, 1996. Biochemistry of DNA Replication.

June Kwak, Ph.D., Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1997. Guard cell ABA and Ca²⁺ signal transduction/Single cell-type functional genomics.

Zhongchi Liu, Ph.D., Harvard U., 1990. Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis.

George Lorimer, Ph.D., Michigan State U., 1972.  Chaperonin facilitated protein folding.

Michael C. Ma, Ph.D., U. Wisconsin, Madison, 1978. Insect reproductive physiology and neuroendocrinology.

John P. Marino, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995.  Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy applied to understanding RNA-RNA and RNA-Protein Interactions.

Roy Mariuzza, Ph.D., Universite de Paris VII, France, 1985. Structure and function of antigen receptors.

Ian H. Mather, Ph.D., Univ. College of North Wales, 1971. Expression and function of mammary glycoproteins.

David Mosser, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1983.  Innate Immunity to Microbial Pathogens.

John Moult, Ph.D., U. Oxford, England 1970. Computer modeling techniques for the study of protein structure and function.

Stephen Mount, Ph.D., Yale U., 1983. Pre-mRNA splicing.

Frederic Mushinski, M.D., Harvard U., 1963. Oncogenes, anti-oncogines and protein kinase C in proliferation, differentiation, and carcinogenesis.

Marshall Nirenberg, Ph.D., U. Michigan, 1957. Development of the nervous system.

Donald Nuss, Ph.D., U. New Hampshire, 1973. Engineering viruses to understand and control fungal pathogenesis.

David O'Brochta, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Irvine, 1985. Biological consequences and molecular genetics of transposable elements in insects.

John Orban, Ph.D., Australian National U., 1985. Biomolecular NMR spectroscsopy.

Mary Ann Ottinger, Ph.D., U. Maryland, 1977. Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine and behavioral aspects of reproduction.

Keiko Ozato, Ph.D., Kyoto U., Japan, 1973. Regulatory elements and factors in gene expression.

Richard Payne, Ph.D., Australian National U., 1982. Mechanisms of visual excitation and signal transduction in photoreceptors.

Leslie Pick, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1985. Embryonic development, evolution and axon guidance in Drosophila.

Tom Porter, Ph.D., U. Minnesota, 1988.  Endocrinology of Growth.

Michael Potter, M.D., U. Virginia, 1949. Mechanisms in malignant development of lymphocytic cells.

Siba K. Samal, Ph.D., Texas A & M U., 1985. Molecular biology of pathogenic animal viruses.

Anne Simon, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1983. Molecular biology of plant-virus interactions.

Harold Smith, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY 1994.  Functional genomics of cellular differentiation.

Theo Solomos, Ph.D., Cambridge U., England, 1963. Biochemistry of plant senescence.

Wenxia Song, Ph.D., Kansas State U., 1991. Processing and presentation of antigen by major histocampatibility complex (MHS) class II in B cells.

Daniel C. Stein, Ph.D., U. Rochester, 1981. Regulation of lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Richard Stewart, Ph.D., Michigan, 1984. Microbial physiology; sensory systems in microorganisms.

Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D., University of Bath, Avon, U.K., 1987.  Genetic engineering of plants for resistence to insects.

Arlin Stoltzfus, Ph.D., U. Iowa, 1991. Bioinformatics; Simulation and analysis of gene, protein, and genome evolution.

David Straney, Ph.D., Yale U., 1987. Regulation of gene expression and development in filamentous fungi.

Sergei Sukharev, Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987.  Biochemistry and biophysics of mechano-sensitive channels.

Heven Sze, Ph.D., Purdue U., 1975. Biochemistry and molecular biology of ion pumps, cotransporters and channels.

Mendel Tuchman, M.D., Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, 1979. Translational research of genes and proteins involved in nitrogen metabolism.

Vikram N. Vakharia, Ph.D., U. Kansas, 1983. Molecular virology and vaccine development.

Inder K. Vijay, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Davis, 1971. Developmental regulation of mammary glycoprotein synthesis.

Stephen M. Wolniak, Ph.D., U. Calif. at Berkeley, 1979. Biology of cell motility, mitotic mechanisms, and signal transduction.

Louisa Wu, Ph.D., U. Calif. at San Diego, 1995. Innate immune response in Drosophila.

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