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Indiana University Bloomington

Faculty from several departments participate in our Graduate Program. They are listed according to the following research area.

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Faculty

Faculty Member Contact Research Areas
Carl Bauer
Chair
Professor
SI 305A
855-6595
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The regulation of gene expression by environmental factors such as light and oxygen; Differentiation of bacteria into different cell types

Stephen Bell
Professor
SI 405A
856-2331
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The study of the molecular and cellular biology of the Archaea, with particular interest in transcription, DNA replication and cell division.

Lingling Chen
Associate Professor
SI 400A
855-0491
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Structural and biochemical studies on protein-protein interactions in GroEL-mediated protein folding and microbial communications
Jared Cochran
Assistant Professor
SI 405C
855-6935
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Development of a metal switch for controlling the activity of P-loop NTPases; kinetic and thermodynamic investigations of unconventional kinesin-microtubule systems; high resolution structural and mechanistic studies of tubulin-protein interactions
Jim Drummond
Director of Graduate Program
Associate Professor
SI 305C
856- 4184
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Limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins: a minimalist approach to structure and function
Cheng Kao
Professor
SI 205C
856-1467
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Biochemistry of RNA virus infection and innate immunity
Craig Pikaard
Carlos O. Miller Professor
Myers Hall 300
855-1874
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Mechanisms of RNA-mediated gene silencing and large-scale epigenetic control
Adam Zlotnick
Professor
SI 220A
856-1925
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Biophysics of virus assembly related to virus biology, development of antiviral strategies, and construction of virus nanostructures

 

Adjunct Faculty

Faculty Member Contact Research Areas
Karen Bush
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Biology

JH A311

855-1542
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Define mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; determine the susceptibility of resistant pathogens to new antibiotics.
Erin Carlson
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry
SI 200B
855-3665
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Define the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis using proteomics and metabolomics; identify therapeutic agents through natural products discovery.
Charles Dann III
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry
SI 320D
856-1704
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Protein structure-based drug design targeting cells involved in epithelial cancer and autoinflammatory disease. Biochemical, mechanistic, and X-ray crystallographic analyses of regulatory RNAs; developing riboswitch-based molecular sensors
Richard DiMarchi
Professor, Department of Chemistry
CH A508
856-1840
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Structure-activity relationships of macromolecules
Bogdan Dragnea
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
CH C231B
856-0087
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Virus-based biomaterials; biophotonics; biophysical chemistry of virus self-assembly; methodologies for measuring microscopic dynamics in supramolecular complexes.
David P. Giedroc
Professor, Department of Chemistry
SI 320A
856-5449
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Metal sensor proteins in pathogenic bacteria; NMR structural studies of regulatory RNAs in mammalian RNA viruses.
Richard Hardy
Associate Professor,
Department of Biology
SI 220E
856- 0652
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Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factors
Tuli Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology
SI 220C
856-3686
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Structure and assembly of enveloped, RNA viruses
Alphavirus Structure and Assembly
Martha G. Oakley
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry
SI 320B
855-4843
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Bacterial chromosome segregation; coiled coil proteins; phosphoinositide control of protein function; structure-function relationships

 

Professionals

Faculty Member Contact Research Areas
Joel Ybe
Senior Research Scientist
SI 405B
856-4882
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Correlation between clathrin-mediated endocytosis and Huntington’s disease