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Graduate Degrees OfferedM.S.; Ph.D. Specializations
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Biochemistry
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Description of ProgramThe Center for Biological Chemistry (CBC) offers a graduate program which is interdisciplinary. Research opportunities exist in a variety of areas, including plant biochemistry, photosynthesis research, plant and animal metabolism, metallobiochemistry, enzyme mechanisms, cancer biology, redox biology, and molecular biology. Biochemistry faculty and participating faculty in animal science, agronomy, chemistry, and biological sciences contribute to the program.Instructional programs are focused in laboratories and classrooms within the George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research. The Beadle Center houses most of the department-affiliated faculty members in state-of-the-art research laboratories and many of the Center for Biotechnology and Redox Biology Center core facilities. These facilities include mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, plant transformation, and microscopy facilities. Also available are an outstanding full-service plant growth and greenhouse complex, and equipment for fluorescence-activated cell analysis, surface plasmon resonance, analytical ultracentrifugation and next-generation high-throughput DNA sequencing. |
Graduate BulletinThe Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more: |
Faculty and Research
| Cheryl Bailey | Protein Regulation Systems; SUMO Proteins; Sumoylation; Carbon Concentrating Mechanisms | |
| Joseph Barycki | Crystallographic and Biochemical Characterizations of Enzymes | |
| Gilles Bassett | Biochemical Geneticist | |
| Donald Becker | Redox Enzymology; Gene Regulation; Multifunctional Proteins; Proline Metabolism | |
| Paul Black | Fatty Acid Transport; Fatty Acid Transport Proteins; Metabolic Transformations | |
| Edgar Cahoon | Functional Genomics; Sphingolipid Metabolism and Function; Nutritional Biofortification of Crop Plants | |
| Concetta DiRusso | Nutrient Fatty Acids; Fatty Acid-Dependent Regulation; Fatty Acids in Health and Disease | |
| Dmitri Fomenko | Redox Biology; Bioinformatics; Transcription Regulation and Molecular Diagnostic Systems | |
| Mark Griep | Biodefense Research; Antibiotic Discovery; Pathogenic Bacteria; DNA Replication; Bioinformatics | |
| Jaekwon Lee | Metal-Ion Metabolism; Copper Transporters; Oxidative Stress Response | |
| Marjorie Lou | Biochemical Mechanisms of Ocular Degenerative Diseases and Aging; Redox Regulation and Metabolism | |
| John Markwell | Photosynthetic Efficiency; Higher Plant Photosynthetic Pigments; Soybean Proteins as Allergens | |
| Jess Miner | Mechanisms Regulating Energy Balance in Mammals | |
| Kenneth Nickerson | Fungal Dimorphism; Quorum Sensing in Fungi; Bacterial Detergent Resistance; Microbial Insecticides | |
| Lawrence Parkhurst | Rapid Reaction Kinetics; Laser Spectroscopy; Eukaryotic Transcription | |
| Gautam Sarath | Biomass and Forage Qualities; Warm-Season Prairie Grasses; Prairie Legumes; Seed Germination and Plant Development; Histone Biotinylation | |
| Melanie Simpson | Prostate Cancer; Tumorigenesis Mechanisms; Extracellular Control of Gene Expression | |
| Greg Somerville | Staphylococcus Aureus and S. Epidermidis Infections | |
| Robert Spreitzer | Structure-Function Relationships of Rubisco; Photosynthesis; Chloroplast Molecular Genetics | |
| Paul Staswick | Plant Molecular Biology; Crop Plant Quality; Disease Resistance Mechanisms | |
| Julie Stone | Plant Molecular Biology; Programmed Cell Death; Signal Transduction | |
| Donald Weeks | Plant Molecular Biology; Genetic Engineering of Plants | |
| Mark Wilson | Protein X-ray Crystallography; Neurodegenerative Diseases | |
| Charles Wood | Molecular Biology of HIV and Human Herpesviruses | |
| Janos Zempleni | Chromatin Biology; Biotinylation of Histones; Gene Regulation; DNA Damage and Repair; Cell Stress and Senescence; Biotin and Riboflavin |
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