Protein Structure and Function Research Area

Researchers interested in Protein Structure and Function

Helen Blackwell

Position title: Professor

Email: blackwell@chem.wisc.edu

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Chemistry
Quorum sensing in human, animal and plant-associated bacteria, artificial bacterial signaling molecules

Briana Burton

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: briana.burton@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Molecular mechanisms of macromolecule transport across membranes

Silvia Cavagnero

Position title: Professor

Email: cavagnero@chem.wisc.edu

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Chemistry
Protein folding and aggregation in the bacterial cell: role of ribosome, molecular chaperones and prions

Michael Cox

Position title: Professor

Email: cox@biochem.wisc.edu

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Biochemistry
Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair

Joseph Dillard

Position title: Professor

Email: jpdillard@wisc.edu

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular mechanisms of disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Tim Donohue

Position title: Professor

Email: tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Bacterial renewable energy strategies

Katrina Forest

Position title: Professor

Email: forest@bact.wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Structural biology of pathogenesis

Jenny Gumperz

Position title: Professor

Email: jegumperz@wisc.edu

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular and functional analyses of T lymphocytes in innate immunity

Katie Henzler-Wildman

Position title: Professor

Email: henzlerwildm@wisc.edu

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Biochemistry
Molecular mechanisms of drug efflux and bacterial secondary active transport

David Hershey

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: dhershey@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria

Gaelen Hess

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: ghess3@wisc.edu

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Molecular Mechanisms of Secreted Effectors from Bacterial Pathogens

Anna Huttenlocher

Position title: Professor

Email: huttenlocher@wisc.edu

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Pediatrics/Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte chemotaxis and inflammation

Tu Anh Huynh

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: thuynh6@wisc.edu

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Food Science
Mechanisms of bacterial signaling, adaptation, pathogenesis, and antibiotic resistance

Betül Kaçar

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: bkacar@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Origins and early evolution of life, ancient proteins, functional evolution over geologic time

James Keck

Position title: Professor

Email: jlkeck@facstaff.wisc.edu

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Structure and function of proteins involved metabolic pathways

Patricia Kiley

Position title: Professor

Email: pjkiley@wisc.edu

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Transcriptional control of anaerobic gene expression in E. coli

Robert Landick

Position title: Professor

Email: landick@bact.wisc.edu

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Biochemistry
Transcriptional regulation/RNA polymerase structure and function

Dan Loeb

Position title: Professor

Email: loeb@oncology.wisc.edu

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Oncology
Hepatitis B viruses

Erica Majumder

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: emajumder@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Anaerobic metabolism, microbe-metal and microbe-plastics interactions, biodegradation

Charlie Mo

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: cymo@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Interface between CRISPR-Cas systems, bacterial variation and selection

Vatsan Raman

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: sraman4@wisc.edu

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Biochemistry
Understanding bacteriophage-host interactions, designing bacteriophages to combat bacterial pathogens and for precision microbiome editing

Michael Thomas

Position title: Professor

Email: michael.thomas@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Biosynthesis of bacterial secondary metabolites

Jade Wang

Position title: Professor

Email: jade.wang@wisc.edu

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Bacteriology
Nucleotide signaling, Antibiotic persistence and resistance, Mechanisms of microbial evolution