Department of Biochemistry

Our vision has such a large dynamic range that we can adjust to see under the glaring light of...

Cellular function and differentiation depend on an ability to read environmental cues and to...

Our lab studies the role of endothelial cells in lipid metabolism. The lipolytic processing of...

Cell-cell interactions affect many aspects of cell behavior, including growth, differentiation...

Work in my laboratory focuses on using molecular simulation techniques to address a variety of...

Research in my laboratory focuses on important problems in signal transduction pertinent to...

The Geyer laboratory is interested in understanding mechanisms involved in genome organization...

The genome of every eukaryotic cell resides in complex with histone proteins to form chromatin....

Understanding how mRNA levels are controlled in eukaryotes requires dissection of the intricate...

Proteins do not typically emerge from ribosomes ready to function. In fact, most proteins...

Our laboratory investigates the biochemistry of actin and the actin binding proteins that...

This laboratory probes the linkage between cooperative ligand binding, conformational change and...

Work in my lab focuses on genome caretakers at the intersection of the 3Rs of DNA maintenance,...

Our research group investigates the fundamental properties of protein-ligand interactions, from...

Mitochondria are the engine of eukaryotic cellular metabolism. Mitochondria sustain cells with a...

Research in the Wallrath laboratory is focused the role of chromatin packaging, gene expression...

Classical, replicative DNA polymerases synthesize DNA in a template-dependent fashion with...

We take advantage of the conservation of developmental control of embryogenesis among organisms,...

The human genome is composed of ~3 billion base pairs of DNA. In order to grow, a human cell...