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Alphabetical Listing of Faculty
(217) 244-2895
Sensorimotor Transformations in the Nervous System
(217) 244-5054
Molecular Pathways of Steroid Hormone Action
(217) 333-2900
Regulation of ovarian follicular development and estrogen action in the male reproductive tract
Baranger, Anne M.
(217) 244-7649
Bioorganic basis of RNA-protein recognition; recognition of non-helical RNA structures by peptides and small molecules; design of RNA-protein complexes using the RRM domain; small molecule control of RNA-protein complexes
(217) 265-5297
Organization of the nucleus; chromosomes and other nuclear organelles; RNA transcription and processing; ribonucleoproteins, nucleo-cytoplasmic trafficking.
(217) 244-2311
Chromatin Structure, Nuclear Architecture, Gene Expression
(217) 333-8176
Calcium channels in the heart: structure, function and regulation
(217) 244-2412
Genetic, cell-biological, biochemical, biophysical, structural, imaging, and flow cytometric techniques are broadly used to address these themes
Buetow, Dennis
(217) 333-3724
(217) 333-1254
Cellular and molecular mechanisms that control amphibian limb regeneration
(217) 333-2090
Molecular biology and biochemistry of archaeal DNA replication; enzymes of plant cell wall hydrolysis
(217) 244-6793
Molecular basis of disease, post-translational modifications, regulation of RNA expression, RNA-protein interactions
(217) 265-0674
Nutrient-sensing signal transduction in mammalian cell growth, differentiation, and metabolism
(217) 333-7764
Epigenetic regulation of NF-κB; the role of NF-κB in apoptosis and cancer; cross-talk between NF-κB and other signaling pathways.
(217) 244-3668
Neurogenomics; cellular mechanisms of neural plasticity; songbird model system
(217) 244-8143
Multifarious molecular structures, conformational changes, thermodynamic stabilities and functions of nucleic acids and protein/nucleic acid complexes
Conrad, Edward
(217) 333-2011
Structure, metabolism, and biological activities of heparin and heparan sulfate
(217) 265-0573
Functional organization and neuromodulation of thalamocortical circuits, Neuronal excitability, Synaptic Physiology and Plasticity, Epilepsy.
(217) 333-2043
Structure/function relationships in photosynthetic energy conversion; structure of membrane proteins; mechanism of energy conservation; photosynthesis in intact plants; energetics of the biosphere
(217) 333-7919
Genetic approaches to regulation of lipid metabolism; metabolic function of protein-lipid interactions; lipoic acid synthesis and attachment
(217) 244-1295
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic (NMRS) studies of living systems
(217) 333-8793
Physiology and simulation of insect behavior
(217) 333-4245
Role of Glycopeptide and Peptide Antifreezes in Inhibition of Ice Crystal Growth and Recrystallization
Ducoff, Howard
(217) 333-0629
(217) 333-1524
Molecular biology of the Agrobacterium-plant interaction
(217) 244-1951
Neural basis of sound pattern recognition
(217) 244-5431
Does microbial metabolic activity, macromolecular chemistry and extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production cause disease in coral reef ecosystems and catalyze CaCO<sub>3</sub> mineral precipitation in hot springs and caves?
(217) 244-5513
Membrane Microdomain Assembly and Membrane Fusion
(217) 244-2662
Gene regulation; telomerase activity; molecular chaperone action
(217) 333-7287
Mechanism of site-specific recombination by bacteriophages and conjugative transposons; mechanisms of protein recognition of DNA
(217) 333-9075
Membrane enzymes involved in energy transduction; electron transport chains in E. coli and Rb sphaeroides
(217) 244-4525
Synuclein proteins and neurodegenerative disease
(217) 244-7414
Mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, functional genomics, directed evolution and rational design of "new" enzymes
(217) 244-1355
Cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain's circadian clock: Stimulus-transcription coupling, molecular gating of signal transduction, neurochemical regulators of circadian rhythms and sleep
(217) 333-0328
The neural organization of behavior
(217) 333-3960
Growth factor and hormone regulation of myelin synthesis; membrane domains and signal transduction
(217) 333-1794
Oxygenic photosynthesis, history of photosynthesis research, and photosynthesis education
(217) 333-4472
Brain plasticity in learning and memory; cellular signalling in brain plasticity; mechanisms of brain development; role of experience in brain maturation
(217) 244-1736
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter-gated Ion Channels
(217) 333-2852
Understanding how enzymes and proteins interact with specific sequences of DNA
(217) 265-0717
Developing and using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and nano-mechanical manipulation tools for molecular biophysics research
(217) 333-9686
Oxidative enzyme mechanisms and protein chemistry
217-333-7913
Biophysical, Hormonal and Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation of Ion Transport in Epithelial Tissues.
(217) 333-4449
Mechanisms of cell determination; development of the vertebrate lens; developmental basis for evolutionary change
(217) 333-0363
Using small molecules to modulate programmed cell death; Identification and use of compounds with novel anti-cancer, anti-neurodegenerative, and anti-bacterial properties
(217) 333-3967
Functional and structural characterization of protein enzymes involved in RNA modification and editing, site-specific RNA cleavage, and RNA repair.
(217) 333-5812
Molecular mechanisms of oxidative damage; cellular defenses against oxidants; obligate anaerobiosis
(217) 333-7576
Neural control of the cardiorespiratory and locomotor apparatuses
(217) 244-2896
Computational studies of biological transport: understanding and engineering life at the interface
(217) 265-6462
Xenopus and Drosophila models for FacioScapuloHumeral muscular Dystrophy (FSHD); Epigeneitic regulation of gene expression
(217) 333-9769
Regulation of gene expression, signal transduction, and cell proliferation by hormones and growth factors; mechanisms of hormone and antihormone action in normal and cancer cells; functional analyses of nuclear hormone receptors
(217) 333-3521
Role of integrins and extracellular matrix proteins in skeletal muscle development, formation of the neuromuscular junction, and muscular dystrophy
(217) 244-3927
Enzymology and proteomics: translating the high peformance of Fourier-transform mass spectrometry into biological insight
(217) 333-1146
Structure and regulation of P450 genes; structural basis for substrate specificity and cellular localization of P450.
( 217) 333-6317
Orphan Nuclear Receptor Action in Metabolic Regulation: Applications to Metabolic Disorders including Fatty liver, Obesity, and Type II Diabetes
(217) 244-2821
Structure, Function, and Engineering of T Cell Receptors;
Molecular Basis of Immune Recognition by T Cells;
Tumor Targeting with T Cells;
Engineering Protein Therapeutics
(217) 265-0329
Chromosomal fragmentation: mechanisms, repair, avoidance
(217) 244-3122
Oxygen sensing, transcriptional regulation of oxygen-responsive genes, physiological genomics of oxygen regulation.
(217) 244-0793/4-9214
Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Adhesion; Cell Engineering
(217) 333-7565
Ins and outs of nucleocytoplasmic transport
(217) 333-2619
Protein design and engineering; in vitro selection and characterization of new catalytic DNA and RNA molecules as anti-viral pharmaceutical agents or as metal ion biosensors
(217) 244-2405
RNA structure and function, RNA-protein interactions,| chemical mechanisms of biological reactions, protein synthesis, tRNA synthetases
(217) 244-6175
Brain development; hormones & growth factors in recovery from early neural retardation; neurobiology of the olfactory system
(217) 244-1943
Molecular genetics and biochemistry of methanogenic Archaea; redox cycling of phosphorus by microorganisms
(217) 244-8418
Mechanisms of intracellular protein breakdown and proteolytic modification; structure/function relationships in peptide hydrolyzing enzymes
(217) 333-1345
Molecular underpinnings of bacterial virulence
(217) 333-4846
Computational biology: Design and evolution of molecular networks
(217) 244-4896
Chromatin structure, function and metabolism. Roles of histone
modifications and other epigenetic factors in normal development and disease.
(217) 265-4036
Regulation of protease cascades; blood clotting; protein-phospholipid interactions
(217) 333-0641
X-ray crystallography, gene regulation, DNA-protein interactions
(217) 244-5679
Regulation of estrogen-responsive genes
(217) 244-1371
Computational Neuroscience; Neuroethology; Adaptive Behaviour
(217) 244-4674
Planarian regeneration, stem cell biology, germ line development
(217) 244-0616
The functions, evolutionary histories and structures of genes and proteins
(217) 333-9098
Investigation of the molecular basis of excitation and adaptation during chemotactic sensory transduction in bacteria
(217) 333-4139
Biogenesis of cell surface glycans in yeast and pathogenic fungi
(217) 244-7832
Eukaryotic Nuclear-retained regulatory RNAs (NrRNAs); Gene regulation; Nuclear domain & structure maintenance
(217) 244-8076
Eukaryotic DNA replication; Chromosome structure & maintenance; Heterochromatin organization; Cell cycle control
(217) 244-6233
Notch signaling pathway in pituitary gland development and disease
(217) 333-1293
Molecular Neuroendocrinology
(217) 244-4655
Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR), including the development of new pulse sequence methodology and instrumentation, and application to studies of protein structure and dynamics
(217) 244-0060
Regulation of chromosomal DNA replication; structure of chromosomal origins; relationship between DNA replication and stable, heritable transcription states (position effects); yeast molecular genetics
(217) 333-0489
Molecular basis of insect olfaction; molecular evolution of DNA transposons; comparative insect genomics; molecular evolution of nematode chemoreceptors
(217) 265-0309
From society to genes
(217) 333-3375
Immunotherapy
(217) 333-7378
Antibiotic-resistance gene transfer; interaction of colonic bacteria with host; genetics of obligate anaerobes; conjugative transposons of Bacteroides
(217) 265-8036
Regulation of gene expression by chromatin; mechanisms of gene silencing and activation in genomic imprinting
(217) 333-8784
Molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics: pre-mRNA processing and P450 monooxygenases
(217) 333-5465
Regulation of the initiating steps of protease cascades
(217) 333-1788
Estrogen action: from gene transcription and mRNA metabolism to inflammation, apoptosis and immune surveillance
(217) 333-9099
Hormonal regulation of birth in mammals: physiological effects of the hormones relaxin, estrogen and progesterone.
(217) 265-6450
Strategies human poxviruses utilize to evade the immune response; viral mechanisms to dampen inflammation
(217) 244-4489
DNA as an enzyme; DNA as a structural constraint; DNA as a sensor component
(217) 244-1956
Molecular mechanisms of Salmonella pathogenesis
(217) 244-7395
Structural and functional characterization of macromolecular assemblies and the enzymes of biological oxidations, nanoscale systems for human therapeutics, genome/proteome analysis, macromolecular signaling and the biological details of cell migration.
(217) 244-3529
Enzyme mechanisms; kinetic isotope effects; kinetics; origins of enzyme catalytic power; bioorganic chemistry; amino acid racemases and epimerases; pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP) chemistry and enzymology
(217) 244-9493
Molecular mechanisms of DNA helicases and DNA motor proteins; mechanistic aspects of protein-nucleic acids and protein-protein interactions; homologous genetic recombination; DNA repair; molecular motors
(217) 244-4000
Evolution of genome structure and regulatory networks; Mouse models for human disease
Novel neurochemistry and the function of cell-to-cell signaling molecules on neuronal network activity
(217) 333-3940
Regulation of bacterial gene expression by transcriptional attenuation
(217) 244-6914
Computational Studies of Membrane Channels and Transporters
(217) 244-7940
The Role of Toll-like Receptors in Host Innate Immune Defense
(217) 244-5360
The understanding of enzymatic transformations that are of pharmaceutical importance
Regulation of Bacterial Stress Responses
(217) 333-5972
Neutrophil adhesion, polarity and chemotaxis; human embryonic stem cells
(217) 333-6727
Live-cell Imaging and Bionanotechnology
(217) 244-8420
Microbial ecology and evolution
(217) 244-9650
Genetics and molecular genetics of C. elegans muscle development; cell-extracellular matrix interactions; integrin-mediated signaling
(217) 244-9631
Bacterial protein toxins, their interaction with host cells, their effects on intracellular signal transduction, and development of novel alternative anti-toxin therapeutics.
(217) 333-9369
Molecular evolution of prokaryotes; structure-function of protein translation apparatus
(217) 333-0065
Biochemistry of methanogens
(217) 333-3245/3-3945
Electron and proton transfer in proteins and across membranes; biological energy conversion; control of redox cofactor function; molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions
(217) 265-9448
GPCR signaling transduction in brain and heart
(217) 333-2631
Synthetic biology; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; biocatalysis; biosynthesis
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