Complete understanding of the functional properties and possibilities of biological macromolecules depends on knowing their three-dimensional structures. With this motivation, our research focuses on analyzing and predicting protein structures in biologically relevant conditions, and establishing structure function relationships in membrane and soluble proteins. We use a wide variety of investigative techniques including chemical and molecular genetic modification of protein structure, mass spectrometry, and computational methods. Follow the links below for each faculty member to discover more thorough descriptions of our research programs.

Participating Faculty:

Gerald Alter, Ph.D. Enzyme function and dynamics in crowded solutions [home][e-mail]

Lawrence Prochaska, Ph.D. Mitochondrial energy conservation [bio] [home] [e-mail]

Michael Raymer, Ph.D. Rational drug design, protein structure modeling, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies, microarray ("genechip") expression data analysis, evolutionary computation, and pattern recognition.
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Kenneth Turnbull, Ph.D. Potentially hypotensive mesoionic compounds; non-linear optical materials. [home][e-mail]