Faculty

Guru Rao

Professor and Interim Chair
294-6116
gururao@iastate.edu
1210 MBB
Protein engineering; Structure-function relationships of plant proteins

Gaya Amarasinghe

Assistant Professor
294-3216
amarasin@iastate.edu
4210 MBB
Biophysical and biochemical studies of protein-RNA interactions

Linda Ambrosio

Associate Professor
294-9549
lima@iastate.edu
3264 MBB
Molecular and genetic characterization of D-raf signal transduction in Drosophila

Amy Andreotti

Professor
294-4953
amyand@iastate.edu
4208 MBB
Protein structure and function, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Donald Beitz

Distinguished Professor
294-5626
dcbeitz@iastate.edu
313 Kildee Hall
Lipid metabolism; Cholesterol homeostasis in animals and humans; Nutritional and genetic control of animal-derived food quality; Etiology and prevention of fatty liver disease

Thomas Bobik

Associate Professor
294-4165
bobik@iastate.edu
2164 MBB
Conversion of inactive cobalamins to coenzyme B12

Alan DiSpirito

Associate Professor
294-2944
aland@iastate.edu
205 Science I
Bioenergetics of chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic bacteria

Herbert Fromm

Distinguished Professor
294-4971
hjfromm@iastate.edu
4110 MBB
Enzyme chemistry; enzyme structure-function relationships

Jack Girton

University Professor
294-0342
bpatch@iastate.edu
3152 MBB
Chromatin structure and function; regulation of cell determination

Mark Hargrove

Associate Professor
294-2616
msh@iastate.edu
4114 MBB
Heme protein structure and function; regulation of cell determination

 

Richard Honzatko

Professor
294-7103
honzatko@iastate.edu
4214 MBB
X-ray crystallography of proteins; enzyme structure/function

Ted Huiatt

Associate Professor
294-8289
twhuiatt@iastate.edu
3113 MBB
Growth and determination of striated muscle during embryonic development

Martha James

Adjunct Associate Professor
294-3818
mgjames@iastate.edu
2152 MBB
Plant starch metabolism; functional interactions and genetic engineering

Robert Jernigan

Professor
294-3833
jernigan@iastate.edu
112 Office & Laboratory Building
Structural computations - proteins, nucleic acids and others

Jorgen Johansen

Professor
294-2358
jorgen@iastate.edu
3156 MBB
Regulation of nuclear organization and function

Kristen Johansen

Professor
294-7959
kristen@iastate.edu
3154 MBB
Regulation of nuclear organization and function

Andrzej Kloczkowski

Adjunct Professor
294-7261
kloczkow@iastate.edu
108 Office and Laboratory Building
Computational molecular biology
Structural bioinformatics
Prediction of protein structure, function and dynamics
Biomolecular simulations

Gustavo MacIntosh

Assistant Professor
294-2627
gustavo@iastate.edu
2214 MBB
Gene expression and metabolic changes during plant defense responses to pests; functional genomics of plant nucleases

W. Allen Miller

Professor
294-2436
wamiller@iastate.edu
413 Bessey Hall
RNA structure and function; molecular genetics of plant viruses

Alan Myers

Professor
294-9548
ammyers@iastate.edu
2110 MBB
Molecular mechanisms of starch assembly and disassembly

Basil Nikolau

Professor
294-9423
dimmas@iastate.edu
2210 MBB
Biochemistry and functional genomics of plant metabolism

Marit Nilsen-Hamilton

Professor
294-9996
marit@iastate.edu
3206 MBB
Nucleic acid, aptamer-based analytical technology; Growth factor function

Reuben Peters

Associate Professor
294-8580
rjpeters@iastate.edu
4216 MBB
Ezymatic and metabolic engineering of terpenoid biosynthesis

Richard Robson

Professor
294-5036
rmrobson@iastate.edu
3110 MBB
Structure and function of muscle contractile -and cytosketal proteins

John Robyt

Professor
294-1964
jrobyt@iastate.edu
4252 MBB
Carbohydrate chemistry and enzymology

Yeon-Kyun Shin

Professor
294-2530
colishin@iastate.edu
4152 MBB
SNARE complex assembly and mechanisms of membrane fusion; EPR methods

Michael Shogren-Knaak

Assistant Professor
294-9015
knaak@iastate.edu
4214 MBB
Role and establishment of histone modifications; Chromatin structure

Louisa Tabatabai

Collaborator Professor
294-6284
lbt@iastate.edu
4212 MBB
Protein chemistry and proteomics; vaccines and diagnostics for animal diseases

Robert Thornburg

Professor
294-7885
thorn@iastate.edu
2212 MBB
Eukaryotic gene regulations and expression; plant resonse to insect attack

Edward Yu

Assistant Professor
294-4955
ewyu@iastate.edu
A115 Physics
Structures and mechanisms of multidrug transporters

Olga Zabotina

Assistant Professor
294-6125
zabotina@iastate.edu
3212 MBB
Plant cell wall structure; polysaccharide biosynthesis, modification and degradation; bioactive carbohydrates