Former Mentors


Technology and Engineering

Francesco Cerrina
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Lithography, Optics, Semiconductors, and X-rays
  Jennifer L. Reed
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Systems biology, Metabolic model development & analysis, Metabolic engineering, Biofuels, bioremediation, & biotechnology

  Parameswaran (Parmesh) Ramanathan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Sciences
Wireless and Wireline Networks, Mobile Computing, Real-time Systems, Fault-tolerant Computing, Parallel Processing, Distributed Systems

  Kewal K. Saluja
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Design for testability, Built-in self-test, Computer architecture, VLSI design and testing, Fault-tolerant computing

Medicine


  Rao M. Adibhatla
Department of Neurological Surgery
Integration of Cytokine Biology to Lipid Metabolism After Stroke
  Nihal Ahmad
Department of Dermatology
Chemoprevention of Cancer by Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Development and Progression
Experimental Therapeutics for Cancer Management

Science


Aseem Ansari
Department of Biochemistry
Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry, biology and genomics
  Alan Attie
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular genetics of type 2 diabetes
  Samuel Butcher
Department of Biochemistry
RNA Structure, Function and Dynamics; NMR Spectroscopy of RNA and Macromolecular Complexes; Biochemistry of RNA catalysis

Mike Cox
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair
  Elizabeth Craig
Department of Biochemistry
Folding and remodeling of proteins in the cell - the function of molecular chaperones

Srinivasan Damodaran
Department of Food Science
Proteins at interfaces, Functional properties of Food Proteins, Protein-based industrial polymers, Enzymatic modification of food proteins, Genetic modification of proteins
  Ankur R. Desai
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
  Brian Fox
Department of Biochemistry
Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering
  Laura Kiessling
Department of Biochemistry
Biomolecular recognition processes; the chemistry and biology of protein-saccharide interactions

  Judith Kimble
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular regulation of animal development

  Bob Landick
Department of Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans
  Julie Mitchell
Department Mathematics
Department of Biochemistry
Development of tools for the computational study of macromolecular interactions
Software for molecular docking
Methods for analyzing molecular shape and shape specificity
Knowledge-based methods for predicting protein interaction hot spots

 
  Nita Sahai
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Department of Chemistry
Interfacial biogeochemistry, organic and inorganic interactions at mineral surfaces on the molecular- and nano-scale
  Doug Weibel
Department of Biochemistry
Microbial biochemistry; biological engineering; chemical biology
  Marvin Wickens
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular genetics; RNA and RNA-protein interactions; developmental biology
  Martin Zanni
Department of Chemistry
Developing spectroscopies to understanding the molecular vibrations of complex biomolecules with regards to structure and function

   
   
 

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