Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Alperin, Jack B., M.D, F.A.C.P. †

Clinical Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine, Pathology, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Associate Director of the Blood Bank Division; Consultant in Hematology and Transfusion Medicine; Emeritus Scholar in the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine

 

Ameredes, Bill, Ph.D. †

Associate Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine

 

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

Professor

Toxicity of Environmental Chemicals: Biochemical Mechanisms

Ansari, Naseem, Ph.D.

Professor

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

Asimakis, Gregory K, Ph.D. †

Associate Professor, Surgery and BMB; Director, Myocardial Metabolism Laboratory; Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs, School of Medicine; Director, Instructional Management Office; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Barral, José M., M.D., Ph.D. *†

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience & Cell Biology

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.†

Professor, Radiation Oncology

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

Professor Emeritus;

Dineley, Kelly T.,Ph.D. †

Assistant Professor, Dept of Neurology

 

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

 

Epstein,Henry F., Ph.D. †
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience & Cell Biology

Fujise, Kenichi, M.D. †

Professor, Dept.of Internal Medicine, Director, Division of Cardiology

 

Goldblum, Randall M., M.D. †

Professor; Pediatrics, Director, Child Health Research 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

Hsieh, Ching-Chyuan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Aging, Signal Transduction

Iwahara, Junji, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

NMR

Jackson, George R,. M.D., Ph.D.†

Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Director, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, John Sealy Chair for Parkinson's Disease

Jeschke, Marc M.D., Ph.D. †

Associate Professor

Konkel, David, Ph.D. *

Associate Professor of BMB; Research Coordinator

Grantwriting, Grantsmanship, Research compliance

 

Kudlicki, Andrzej S., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Bioinformatics

 

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, 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, Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, Ph.D.. *

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Neuroscience & Cell Biology

Matalon, Reuben, M.D., Ph.D. †

Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics

Meyer, Walter J. III, M.D. †

Professor, Dept of Psychiatry/Behavioral Science

Midoro-Horiuti,Terumi, M.D. †

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics

 

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

Oberhauser, Andres, Ph.D.* †

Associate Professor, Dept of Neuroscience and Cell Biology

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

Pettitt, B. Montgomery Ph.D. *
Professor, Director, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology and Toxicology and holder of the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry in Pharmacology and Toxicology

 

Pierce, Anson, Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Protein Aggregation, Protein Hydrophobicity, Heat Shock Proteins, HSF1, Proteomics, Oxidative Stress

 

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

Rajagopalan, Lavanya, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

 

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

Rassin, David K., Ph.D.†

Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics

Resto, Vicente A., Ph.D. †

Area Medical Director, Department of Otolaryngology ; Co-director, Center for Cancers of the Head and Neck; Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck surgery and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Rowicka-Kudlicka, Malgorzata E., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Bioinformatics

Sadygov, Rovshan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Bioinformatics

Sastry, Sarita, Ph.D. *

Assistant Professor, Director, BMB Graduate Program

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

Sherman, Michael B., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of BMB

Cryo Electron Microscopy, Structural Biology

Singh, Pomila, 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; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, Director, Proteomics Section, and Assistant Director of the 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