Biotechnology graduate students may choose to work in the labs of Biotechnology program faculty members (listed below), but they are not limited to Microbiology faculty members' labs. You may instead work in a lab from another department, such as Biology, Biochemistry, or Medical Sciences.
Affiliate: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
DNA helicases and the maintenance of genome integrity; fermentation science.
Adjunct: Professor of Practice in Biotechnology
Antibiotic mechanisms of action and resistance; Antibacterial drug discovery and drug development.
Adjunct: Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Microbial structure, function and mechanism; biology of molecular chaperone (chaperonin).
Affiliate: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Development of a metal switch for controlling the activity of P-loop NTPases; kinetic and thermodynamic investigations of unconventional kinesin-microtubule systems; high resolution structural and mechanistic studies of tubulin-protein interactions.
Adjunct: Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Limited alphabet coding sequences and proteins; a minimalist approach to structure and function.
Adjunct: Professor of Biochemistry
Biochemistry of RNA virus infection and innate immunity. Director of Biotechnology Program.
Senior Lecturer, Assistant director of Biotechnology undergraduate program
Lecturer, Assistant director of Biotechnology graduate program
Adjunct: Professor of Biochemistry
Biophysics of virus assembly related to virus biology, development of antiviral strategies, and construction of virus nanostructures.
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