Faculty

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program is comprised of a diverse faculty with broad research interests ranging from the molecular control mechanisms of RNA stability to the definition of crystal structures of membrane and soluble proteins.

Professor and Chairman
Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice-Chairman
Julia E. Lever, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
John A. DeMoss, Ph.D.
Barbara Sanborn, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, BMB Graduate Program
Michael Blackburn, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Center for Membrane Biology
John Spudich, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Structural Biology Research Center
Pawel Penczek, Ph.D

Professor and Chairman
Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D.

Medical School Departmental Faculty
Michael Blackburn, Ph.D.
Phil Carpenter, Ph.D.
William Dowhan, Ph.D.
Vasanthi Jayaraman, Ph.D.
Jianping Jin, Ph.D.
Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D.
Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D.
Julia E. Lever, Ph.D.
Alan Levine, Ph.D.
Renhao Li, Ph.D.
Pawel Penczek, Ph.D.
John Putkey, Ph.D.
C.S. Raman, Ph.D.
Kevin Ridge, Ph.D.
William Seifert, Ph.D.
Ann-Bin Shyu, Ph.D.
John Spudich, Ph.D.
Henry Strobel, Ph.D.
Sudha Veeraraghavan, Ph.D.
Yang Xia, Ph.D.
Lei Zheng, Ph.D.

Graduate School Program Faculty
Joseph Alcorn, Ph.D.
Michael Blackburn, Ph.D.
Phil Carpenter, Ph.D.
Carmen Dessauer, Ph.D.
William Dowhan, Ph.D.
Vasanthi Jayaraman, Ph.D.
Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D.
Richard Kulmacz, Ph.D.
Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D.
Julia E. Lever, Ph.D.
Renhao Li, Ph.D.
Kevin Morano , Ph.D.
Pawel Penczek, Ph.D.
John Putkey, Ph.D.
C.S. Raman, Ph.D.
Kevin Ridge, Ph.D.
Ann-Bin Shyu, Ph.D.
John Spudich, Ph.D.
James Stoops, Ph.D.
Henry Strobel, Ph.D.
Ah-Lim Tsai, Ph.D.
Ambro van Hoof, Ph.D.
Sudha Veeraraghavan, Ph.D.
Rick Wetsel, Ph.D.
Yang Xia, Ph.D.
Lei Zheng , Ph.D.

Research Track Faculty
Mikhail Bogdanov, Ph.D.
Chyi-Ying Chen, Ph.D.
Misty Chen-Goodspeed, Ph.D.
Dong-Sun Lee, Ph.D.
Mary Marsh , Ph.D.
Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Ph.D.
Jun Sasaki , Ph.D.
Oleg Sineshchekov, Ph.D.
Cissy Chenyi Zhou, Ph.D.

Cross-Appointed Faculty
Joseph Alcorn, Ph.D.
Rowan Chang, Ph.D.
Hamed Jafar-Nejad, M.D.
Melvin Klegerman, Ph.D.
Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D.
Richard Kulmacz, Ph.D.
Nami McCarty, Ph.D.
John O’Brien, Ph.D.
Paul J. Simmons, Ph.D.
James Stoops, Ph.D.
Ah-Lim Tsai, Ph.D.
Steven W. Wang, Ph.D.
Rick Wetsel, Ph.D.

Visiting Faculty