People who work in Structural and functional studies of macromolecules and supramolecular structures

Regulation of expression of iron-binding proteins in the nervous system.

Mechanism of plant growth. Function and evolution of expansins. Biochemistry and rheology of plant cell walls. Growth responses to light, hormones, and water stress and other stimuli.

Plant cell and developmental biology. Biochemical, genetic, molecular genetic and cell biology of the cytoskeleton. Mitosis, with emphasis on spindle assembly.

The detailed workings of motor proteins and their role in intracellular transport and cell motility.

Energy metabolism and mitochondria anomalies. Model and natural biomembranes. Protein dynamics and protein-protein interaction. Theoretical modeling and technique development (biophotonics and biophysics approaches).

Development and regulation of GABAergic inhibitory synapses; neural substrates regulating anxiety and cognition.

Structural and functional basis of two component signal transduction. Structural basis for how AAA+ ATPases perform mechanical work to activate transcription by remodeling the sigma54-form of bacterial RNA polymerase.

Biochemical reconstitution and mechanistic studies on chromatin and the transcription machinery.

Development of nanofabricated tools for cell biology; spatiotemporal dynamics of cell surface phenomena; signal transduction; membrane structure and dynamics; quantitative fluorescence microscopy.

Structural biology of eukaryotic gene regulatory complexes.

Roles of the cytoskeleton at the cell membrane in epithelial cells, including issues of cell polarity and adhesion, cell signaling, and morphogenesis.