Research

Our Department offers training for careers in biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Our research encompasses all areas of modern biochemistry, including neurobiology, ion channels and membrane biophysics, signaling, epigenetics, protein evolution, engineering, immunology, stress response, DNA recombination, protein and RNA folding, and the cytoskeleton.

In addition to more traditional biochemical approaches, we apply cryo electron-microscopy, time-resolved X-ray crystallography, single-molecule techniques, computational approaches, phage display technology, small angle X-ray scattering and NMR spectroscopy.

Our Department is distinguished by its intellectual rigor and collaborative style. The interdisciplinary nature of the Department is enhanced through its close ties to the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, which brings together biological and physical scientists to pursue common research goals, and through NIH-sponsored training programs in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chemical Biology.