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| Arthur Arnone, Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D. (physical chemistry), MIT, 1970. Macromolecular structure determination; hemoglobin crystallography; transaminase crystallography. arthur-arnone@uiowa.edu | ||
| Christopher Cheatum, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001. Femtosecond infrared spectroscopy of enzymes, proton-transfer reactions, molecular mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis, reaction dynamics in proteins, vibrational spectroscopy and dynamics, nonlinear spectroscopy. christopher-cheatum@uiowa.edu | ||
| Robert Cohen, Associate Professor; Ph.D. (biochemistry), Berkeley, 1980. Biochemistry of the ubiquitin system; control of intracellular protein degradation; protein-protein interactions; protein stability and conformational equilibria. robert-cohen@uiowa.edu | ||
| Adrian Elcock, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Ph.D. (chemistry), Oxford University, 1994. Computer simulations of micromolecular interactions. adrian-elcock@uiowa.edu | ||
| Sonya Franklin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1994, University of California, Berkeley. Bioinorganic chemistry; design and development of artificial endonucleases; lanthanide-peptide DNA binding and cleavage motifs; structure and function of a zinc-binding protein implicated in Multiple Sclerosis. sonya-franklin@uiowa.edu | ||
| Lei Geng, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1994, Duke University. Detection and spectroscopy of single molecules, time-resolved spectroscopy, chiroptical techniques, nonlinear spectroscopy; DNA sequencing; structure and dynamics of proteins; capillary electrophoresis. lei-geng@uiowa.edu | ||
| Harold Goff, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1976, University of Texas, Austin. Synthesis, spectroscopy, and catalysis by high-valent metalloporphyrins and organometallic porphyrin derivatives; high-field NMR of peroxoides enzymes. harold-goff@uiowa.edu | ||
| Jan Jensen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1995, Iowa State University. Computational molecular biophysics. Protein pKa predictions, biocatalysis, and drug design using QM/MM methods. jan-jensen@uiowa.edu | ||
| Amnon Kohen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, D.Sc. 1994, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Bioorganic Chemistry; studying the mechanisms by which enzymes activate C-H and N†N bonds. Examination of protein structure, dynamics and function relationship. Pursuing medical and technological applications of biological catalysts. amnon-kohen@uiowa.edu | ||
| Robert Linhardt, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1979, Johns Hopkins University. Carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry with a focus an acidic sugars as they relate to the development of new pharmaceutical agents. robert-linhardt@uiowa.edu | ||
| Claudio Margulis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., Boston University, 2001. claudio-margulis@uiowa.edu | ||
| Kip Murphy, Associate Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D. (physical biochemistry), Colorado, 1990. Thermodynamics of protein folding and protein-protein interactions; microcalorimetry. k-murphy@uiowa.edu | ||
| Bryce Plapp, Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D. (biochemistry), Berkeley, 1966. Mechanisms of alcohol dehydrogenases; protein chemistry, structure, and function; enzyme engineering by directed mutagenesis; regulation of alcohol metabolism. bv-plapp@uiowa.edu | ||
| Daniel Quinn, Professor and Chair of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1977, University of Kansas. Molecular dynamics of acetylcholinesterase catalysis; mechanisms of enzymes of cardiovascular lipid metabolism; design of mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors; synthesis and evaluation of potential blood cholesterol lowering drugs. daniel-quinn@uiowa.edu | ||
| S. Ramaswamy, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry; Ph. D (Molecular Biophysics), Indian Institute of Science, 1992. Protein crystallography,structural enzymology of naphthalene dioxygenase and alcohol dehydrogenase. s-ramaswamy@uiowa.edu | ||
| Andy Robertson, Associate Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D. (biochemistry), Wisconsin- Madison, 1988. Protein structure, stability and folding; NMR spectroscopy of proteins. andy-robertson@uiowa.edu | ||
| Madeline Shea, Associate Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D. (biophysics), Johns Hopkins, 1984. Protein chemistry; functional thermodynamics of cooperative ligand binding and conformational change; regulatory properties of calcium-binding proteins; site-specific energetics of calmodulin intermediates. madeline-shea@uiowa.edu | ||
| Jason Telford, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. 1995, University of California, Berkeley. Bioinorganic chemistry. Supramolecular and nanochemistry of metal complexes. De novo metalloprotein design. Design and synthesis of outer sphere coordination complexes for environmental remediation and artificial enzymes. jason-telford@uiowa.edu | ||
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