Go to Microbiology Doctoral Training Program HomeSkip Navigation and Go Directly to Content

Student using microscope

Alphabetical List
Research Interests
Becoming a Trainer
Program Guidelines
Seminars

Prospective StudentsCurrent StudentsFaculty/StaffLinksContact Us
Why UW-MadisonAlumni
   
 

Protein Structure and Function

Name

Research Program

Andrew Bent Plant immune systems: molecular basis of pathogen recognition, defense activation, bacterial virulence
Helen Blackwell Chemical approaches to modulate quorum sensing in animal and plant-associated bacteria; Design of artificial bacterial signaling molecules

Richard Burgess

Biochemistry and molecular biology of RNA polymerase and transcription factors

Michael Cox

Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair

Elizabeth Craig

Genetics of environmental stress; protein translocation and folding

Joseph P. Dillard

Molecular mechanisms of disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Timothy Donohue

Process and regulation of cytochrome biosynthesis

Jorge Escalante-Semerena

Genetics and biochemistry of anaerobic metabolism

Katrina Forest

Structural biology of pathogenesis

Brian Fox

Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering.

Jenny Gumperz

Molecular and functional analyses of T lymphocytes in innate immunity

Anna Huttenlocher

Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte chemotaxis and inflammation

James Keck

Study the structure and function of proteins that are involved in multiple nucleic acid metabolic pathways.

Laura L. Kiessling

Molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial sensing and mycrobacterial cell wall biosynthesis.

Patricia Kiley

Transcriptional control of anaeraobic gene expression in E. coli

Robert Landick

Transcriptional regulation/RNA polymerase structure and function

Gary Roberts

Genetics and biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and carbon monoxide oxidation

Ben Shen

Secondary metabolite biosynthesis and drug discovery

Rob Striker

Nucleotide selectivity, error rate, and supramolecular structure of the hepatitis C viral (HCV) polymerase

Michael Thomas

Biosynthesis of bacterial secondary metabolites

Rodney Welch

Molecular analysis of bacteria pathogens

 

University of Wisconsin-Madison Homepage