Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ansari, G.A. Shakeel, Ph.D. *

Professor

Toxicity of Environmental Chemicals: Biochemical Mechanisms

Ansari, Naseem, Ph.D.

Professor of BMB

Oxidative Stress, Diabetes, Lipid Aldehydes, Cataractogenesis, Retinopathy, ARMD

Barral, José M., M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Bhakat, Kishor K., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

APE1, DNA Repair, Acetylation, Blood pressure

Bolen, D. Wayne, Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Protein Folding, Osmolyte Effects On Proteins, Protein Stabilization, Protein Aggregation, Protein Dynamics

Brasier, Allan R., M.D *

Professor; Leon Bromberg Professor of Medicine; Director, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Braun, Werner, Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology; Director, Computational Chemistry Core

Computational Biology, DNA Repair, Allergy , Pheromones

Bujalowski, Wlodek M., Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Chemical Kinetics, Macromolecular Thermodynamics, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Light Scattering, DNA Helicases, DNA Polymerases, Enzyme Mechanisms

Carmical, J. Russ, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of BMB, Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Molecular Genomics, DNA MicroArrays, Real Time PCR, SNPs, RNAi, DNA Sequencing

Carney, Darrell, Ph.D *

Professor

Cell Surface Receptors, Thrombin and Thrombin Receptors, Tissue Repair and Regeneration, Endothelial Dysfunction, Thrombin Peptide TP508, Endothelial Cells and Angiogenesis

Choi, Kay, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Structural biology, virus structure and function, RNA replication, X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy

Cornforth, Michael N., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Chan, Lee-Nien Lillian, Ph.D. *

Professor; Director, BMB Graduate Program

Lung inflammation,Transgenic Mouse Model, Asthma, Tissue Damage and Repair, Reactive Oxygen Species and Apoptosis

Czerwinski, Edmund, Ph.D. *

Associate Professor; Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

X-ray Crystallography, Macromolecular Structure, Cedar Pollen Allergens, Small Molecules of Biological Interest

Du, Jie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Englander, Ella, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery

DNWntA damage and repair in the central nervous system; Oxidative stress and neuroprotection; Genotoxic effects of smoke inhalation injury in the brain

Evers, B. Mark, M.D.

Professor and Roberston-Poth Distinguished Chair in General Surgery

Fox, Robert O., Ph.D. *
Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Synthetic Biology, Cell Signaling, Pathway & Protein Engineering, Structural Biology of Viral & Stress Proteins, Stress Response, Engineering Novel Viral Inhibitors, Protein Folding & Molecular Recognition

Frolova, Elena, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Developmental Biology, Development, Eye, Signaling,Extracellular Matrix, Viral Vectors, Virus-host Interaction

Goldblum, Randall M., M.D.

Professor; Pediatrics, Director, Child Health Research Center

Gorenstein, David G., Ph.D. *

Professor; Associate Dean of Research, School of Medicine; Charles Marc Pomerat Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, UTMB NMR Center

Hazra, Tapas K., Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor of BMB; Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Oxidative DNA damage, Base excision repair, Mutation analysis, Transcription coupled repair, Mammlian cells

Hilser, Vincent J., Ph.D. *

Professor; Director, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Thermodynamics,Protein Structure and Dynamics, Molecular Recognition, Protein Folding

Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Aging, Signal Transduction

Iwahara, Junji, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

NMR

Jeschke, Marc, M.D. Ph.D.*

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Surgery

Trauma; cytokines; liver; wounds; metabolism

Jia, Jianhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor; Scientist, Sealy Center for Cancer cell Biology

Signal transduction, developmental genetics, pattern formation and growth control.

Konkel, David, Ph.D. *

Associate Professor of BMB; Research Coordinator

Grantwriting, Grantsmanship, Research compliance

 

Kumar, Raj, Ph.D *

Assistant Professor of BMB

Kurosky, Alexander, Ph.D. *

Professor; Director, UTMB Biomolecular Resource Facility; Director,UTMB NHLBI Proteomics Center; Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology; Environmental Health & Medicine

Proteomics, Asthma, Allergy, Protein Structure, Function and Genetics, Mass spectrometry, Airway inflammation

Lee, James C., Ph.D. *

Professor; Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry

Transcription, Biocatalysis, Protein Stability and dynamics, Viral infection, Drug resistance, Metabolic Disease

Liu, Chunming, Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor; Member, Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology

Cell Signaling,Cancer,Proteomics,Chromatin Remodeling

Liu, Danxia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; Dept. of Neurology

Luxon, Bruce A., Ph.D. *

Professor; Director, UTMB Bioinformatics Program; Member, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Biomedical Informatics, Biomarkers, Systems Biology, Genomics, Proteomics, Metabonomics

Martinez, Luis

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology

Mitra, Sankar, Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

DNA Repair, Oxidative Stress, Redox signaling, Base excision repair, Aging and Oxidative DNA damage, Oxidative DNA Damage and Cancer

Nesic, Olivera, Ph.D.*

Assistant Professor of BMB

Neuropathic Pain, Spinal Cord Injury,Aquaporins, Glial Cells,Osmoregulation

O'Connor, Kathleen, Ph.D.*

Assistant Professor

Papaconstantinou, John, Ph.D. *

Professor; Bertha and Robert Bucksch Distinguished Professor of Aging

Proteomics, Genomics, Aging, Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Protein Misfolding

Perez-Polo, J. Regino, Ph.D. *

I. H. Kempner Professor and Chair, Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine and Scientific Staff, Shriners Burns Hospital

Responses to CNS trauma, Cell Death Mechanisms, Aging and Alzheimer's, Organelle Routing,Systems Biology, Transcription Factor Regulation

Prakash, Louise, Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

DNA Repair, DNA Replication, Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis, Translesion Synthesis DNA Polymerases, PCNA Ubiquitylation, Replication through DNA lesions

Prakash, Satya, Ph.D. *

Professor; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

DNA repair, DNA replication, Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis,Translesion Synthesis DNA Polymerases, PCNA Ubiquitylation and Translesion DNA Synthesis, Replication Through DNA Lesions

Rabek, Jeffrey P., Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor of BMB; Fellow, Sealy Center on Aging

Transcription, Translation, Proteomics, Gene Expression

Rajarathnam, Krishna, Ph.D. * 

Associate Professor; Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

NMR, Chemokines, G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR), Structure-Function, Structural Biology, Monomer-Dimer

Ramana, Kota V., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Inflammation, Secondary Diabetic complications, Signal transduction, Oxidative stress, Polyol pathway

Resto, Vicente A., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Director of Reconstructive Surgery, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Rosenblatt, Kevin, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Director for Biomarker Development, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Rösgen, Jörg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Molecular Crowding, Osmolytes, Reaction Networks, Calorimetry, Statistical Mechanics, Protein Folding and Interaction

Sastry, Sarita, Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor

Schein, Catherine H., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB; Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Molecular Docking, Protein Sequence Analysis, Design Of Viral Inhibitors, Protein Aggregation In Disease, NMR And Modeling Of Protein Structure, Molego Analysis Of Function

Shen, Rong-Sen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Sherman, Michael B., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Cryo Electron Microscopy, Structural Biology

Singh, Pomila, Ph.D.

Professor

Soto, Claudio, Ph.D.

Professor

Srivastava, Satish K., Ph.D. *

Professor, BMB and Ophthalmology

Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, Signaling, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Cataract

Thompson, E. Brad, M.D. *

Professor

Glucocorticoids, Steroid, Hormone Receptors, Apoptosis ,Natively Unfolded Proteins, Map Kinases, Lymphoid Cells

Toliver-Kinsky, Tracey, Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor of BMB, Department of Anesthesiology; Shriners Hospitals for Children Galveston Burn Unit

Watowich, Stanley J., Ph.D*

Associate Professor; Scientist, Sealy Center for Structural Biology

Drug Discovery, Virus Structure and Function, Bbiomolecular Function, Cell Signaling, Computational Biology

Watson, Cheryl S., Ph.D. *

Professor

Environmental Estrogens, Steroid Hormone Action, Breast Cancer, Glucocorticoids, Membrane Steroid Receptors, Nongenomic Steroid Signaling

White, Mark, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB, Manager X-ray Crystallography Laboratory

X-ray Crystallography,Structural Biology

Wiktorowicz, John E., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of BMB; Assistant Director, Biomolecular Resource Facility

Proteomics, Gene Regulation, Systems Biology, Human Disease, Protein ProFiler™

Wood, Thomas G., Ph.D.

Professor; Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine; Director, Recombinant DNA Laboratory, Molecular Genomics Core Facility

Recombinant DNA,Gene Expression Analysis, Real Time QRT-PCR , Bacterial Expression, Site-Directed Mutagenesis,DNA Sequence Analysis

Zhang, Shanmin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB; NMR Manager, Sealy Center for Structural Biology