Biochemistry
Chair:  Dr. Elmar Prenner

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Dr. Isabelle Barrette-Ng - Inquiry-based and blended learning exercises in undergraduate science education; crystallographic and computational studies of protein and RNA structure and function

Dr. Elmar Prenner - Membrane architecture, domains and lipid rafts, biophysical techniques, DNA labelling.

Dr. Robert Edwards - Integral membrane protein structure and light driven reactions of tryptophan.

Dr. Dae-Kyun Ro - Biochemistry and molecular genetics of plant secondary metabolisms; Plant and microbial metabolic engineering for the production of pharmaceuticals, nutrient-enhanced crops, and renewable energy.

Dr. Peter Facchini - Biochemistry, molecular and cell biology of plant secondary metabolism; metabolic engineering in plants.

Dr. Peter Tieleman - Computer simulations of biological membranes and membrane proteins.

Dr. Marie Fraser - Structural biology. Investigating the catalytic mechanism of enzymes using the tools of X-ray crystallography and molecular biology.

Dr. Raymond J. Turner - Metal resistance in Bacteria. Private molecular chaperones for the Tat-Translocase. Integral membrane protein structure and folding. Fluorescence spectroscopy.

Dr. Elke Lohmeier-Vogel - Metabolism of pentose sugars by immobilized or freely suspended yeast strains. Undergraduate laboratory development.

Dr. Hans Vogel - NMR and spectroscopic studies of antimicrobial peptides, regulatory calcium binding proteins and bacterial iron-uptake proteins.

Dr. Greg Moorhead - Role and regulation of protein phosphatases in humans and plants and the interaction of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Dr. Aalim Weljie - Metabolic consequences of cancer cell proliferation and metastasis; Toxicometabolomics; Endocrine disruption from environmental toxicants and impact on hormonally sensitive cancers; Metabolomics analysis using mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance; chemometrics.

Dr. Ken Ng - X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and carbohydrate-binding proteins

Dr. Vanina Zaremberg - Lipid mediated signaling and regulation of lipid metabolism using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as model system.

Dr. Sergei Noskov - Theoretical biophysics of ligand transport. Molecular Dynamics simulations of membrane proteins. Development of free energy simulations techniques.

Dr. Steve Zimmerly - Transposition of group II introns in bacteria and evolution of group II introns.