Staff
Helen Geiger
Administrative Assistant
(517) 432-9895
geiger@msu.edu
Claire Vieille, Ph.D., Coordinator
Training Program & Development
(517) 355-9722
vieille@msu.edu

Faculty


Bagdasarian, Michael (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) Structural Biology, Molecular Pathogenesis, Protein Secretion, Recombinant Vaccines (bagdasa3@msu.edu)
Bates, Peter (Mathematics) Infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, nonlinear elliptic and parabolic PDE, phase transitions (mathchair@math.msu.edu)
Bauer, Wolfgang (Physics and Astronomy) Nuclear theory, in particular heavy ion reaction theory (bauer@pa.msu.edu)
Beck, Warren (Chemistry) Protein dynamics and reactions in proteins using fast laser spectroscopic methods(beck@msu.edu)
Billinge, Simon (Physics and Astronomy) Study the relationship between local atomic structure and properties of materials using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques (billinge@msu.edu)
Blanchard, Gary (Chemistry) (blanchard@chemistry.msu.edu)
Cao, Yue (Radiology) Application of new MRI techniques to address clinical driven neurological and radiological questions (caoyu@msu.edu)
Chan, Christina (Chemical Engineering and Material Science) Integrating various levels of information from genetic expression to metabolic data (krischan@egr.msu.edu)
Cheng, Hans (USDA-ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory) Structural and functional genomics of disease resistance in chicken.
Cole, James (Microbial Ecology Center) The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) provides ribosome related data services to the scientific community (colej@msu.edu)
Cukier, Robert (Chemistry) Quantum and classical mechanics methods development for simulation of reaction mechanisms in enzymes; Modelling kinetics and electrostatic interactions of protein assemblies (cukier@cem.msu.edu)
Duxbury, Phillip (Physics and Astronomy) Statistical Mechanics, Disordered Systems, Materials Theory, Computational Physics (duxbury@pa.msu.edu)
Feig, Michael (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Chemistry) Modeling of supramolecular assemblies and membrane environments. Protein structure prediction and refinement (feig@msu.edu)
Ferguson-Miller, Shelagh (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Cytochrome c oxidases, protein structure and computation (fergus20@msu.edu)
Fu, Wenjiang (Epidemiology) Statistical and epidemiological research, including cancer studies, and methodological research in statistical computing and clinical trials (fuw@msu.edu)
Garavito, Michael (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Elucidation of structure-function relationships in membrane proteins and molecular complexes using macromolecular crystallography and other biophysical methods (garavito@msu.edu)
Gardiner, Joseph (Epidemiology) Development of models that reflect the experience of patients in sustained and changing states of health, and methods for analyzing jointly both cost and effectiveness measures using multivariate methods from survival analyses (gardine3@msu.edu)
Getty, Thomas (Zoology/Kellogg Biological Station) Evolution of signaling, social behavior and life history strategies (getty@kbs.msu.edu)
Goodman, Erik (Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering) The Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (GARAGe) studies and advances evolutionary computation, building on principles abstracted from nature (goodman@egr.msu.edu)
Harrison, Michael (Physics and Astronomy) Physics of sensory thresholds in primates: signal-to-noise factors in theoretical neuroscience (harrison@pa.msu.edu)
Hartmann, William (Physics and Astronomy) Systems Biology. Test theories of sound localization and binaural hearing against experiments on human listeners (hartmann@pa.msu.edu)
Hausinger, Robert (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) structure/function studies of enzymes and biological processes involving metal ions (hausinge@msu.edu)
Hayes, Daniel (Fisheries and Wildlife) Determine how fish habitat affects their population dynamics, general ecology of fishes (hayesdan@msu.edu)
Hoogstraten, Charles (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Cell and Molecular Biology Program) RNA catalysis and RNA-protein interactions; biomolecular NMR and EPR methods and applications(hoogstr3@msu.edu)
Huebner, Marianne (Statistics and Probability) Host-parasite systems in mathematical ecology; statistical issues in data analysis of microarray experiments; genetic association for complex traits; biological networks (huebner@msu.edu)
Jackson, Julius (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) Gene and protein sequence in evolution (jhjacksn@msu.edu)
Kron, Michael (Medicine, College of Human Medicine, and Institute of International Health) Drug development (Michael.Kron@ht.msu.edu)
Kroos, Lee (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) Determining the structures of bacterial transcription factors; Molecular mechanisms of signaling and gene regulation during bacterial development (kroos@msu.edu)
Kuhn, Leslie (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Developing computational approaches for protein folding, ligand interactions, and design (KuhnL@msu.edu)
Lenski, Richard (Crop and Soil Science/Microbiology and Molecular Genetics/Zoology) Experimental evolution, Escherichia coli and Digital organisms in the Avida system (lenski@msu.edu)
McCracken, John (Chemistry) Development and use of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy for the structural characterization of paramagnetic centers in biologicalsystems (mccracke@msu.edu)
Ofria, Charles (Computer Science and Engineering) (ofria@msu.edu)
Piecuch, Piotr (Chemistry) (piecuch@cem.msu.edu)
Preiss, Jack (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Structural Biology, Evolutionary Modeling (preiss@msu.edu)
Punch, William (Computer Science and Engineering) (punch@cse.msu.edu)
Schmidt, Thomas (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) (tschmidt@msu.edu)
Seibold, Steve (Chemistry) Computational methods (Molecuar Dynamics, Docking, etc.) to investigate protein structure function relationships in ligand binding and water chain formation necessary for enzyme activity (seibolds@msu.edu)
Shachar-Hill, Yair (Plant Biology) We study metabolic networks in plant systems including developing seeds and mycorrhizas. (yairhill@msu.edu)
Sklenak, Stepan Jaroslav Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (stepan.sklenak@jh-inst.cas.cz)
Tang, Moxun (Mathematics) (tang@math.msu.edu)
Tomanek, David (Physics and Astronomy) Nanostructures (tomanek@pa.msu.edu)
Torng, Eric (Computer Science and Engineering) Developing algorithms for identifying disulfide bonds given mass spectral data; Evaluating and developing algorithms for phylogeny reconstruction (torng@msu.edu)
Vieille, Claire (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Studying the determinants of protein thermostability using hyperthermophilic enzymes as models ; Changing enzyme substrate and cofactor specificities, changing enzyme stability to temperature and pH; Comparing flexibility in mesophilic and hyperthermophilic proteins by NMR and molecular dynamics (vieille@msu.edu)
Wang, Chang Yi (Mathematics) (cywang@math.msu.edu)
Wedemeyer, Bill (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Physics and Astronomy) (proteins@msu.edu)
Wei, Guowei (Mathematics) Advanced numerical methods for the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules. ( wei@math.msu.edu)
Weliky, David (Chemistry/Cell and Molecular Biology Program) NMR and crystallography for structure determination of viral fusion peptides and proteins (weliky@cem.msu.edu)
Wenkert, David (Physiology) Collaborations in drug design in the areas of infectious diseases and cancer (wenkert@msu.edu)
Yan, Honggao (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Protein structure, function and dynamics with applications to protein engineering and structure-based drug design (yanh@msu.edu)
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Executive Committee

Bates, Peter (Mathematics) (mathchair@math.msu.edu)
Bauer, Wolfgang (Physics and Astronomy) (bauer@pa.msu.edu)
Chan, Christina (Chemical Engineering and Material Science) Integrating various levels of information from genetic expression to metabolic data (krischan@egr.msu.edu)
Cukier, Robert (Chemistry) Quantum and classical mechanics methods development for simulation of reaction mechanisms in enzymes; Modelling kinetics and electrostatic interactions of protein assemblies (cukier@cem.msu.edu)
Duxbury, Phillip (Physics and Astronomy) Statistical Mechanics, Disordered Systems, Materials Theory, Computational Physics (duxbury@pa.msu.edu)
Feig, Michael (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Chemistry) Modeling of supramolecular assemblies and membrane environments. Protein structure prediction and refinement (feig@msu.edu)
Ferguson-Miller (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Cytochrome c oxidases, protein structure and computation (fergus20@msu.edu)
Hausinger, Robert (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) structure/function studies of enzymes and biological processes involving metal ions (hausinge@msu.edu)
Hoogstraten, Charles (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) RNA catalysis and RNA-protein interactions; biomolecular NMR and EPR methods and applications (hoogstr3@msu.edu)
Huebner, Marianne (Statistics and Probability) Host-parasite systems in mathematical ecology; statistical issues in data analysis of microarray experiments; genetic association for complex traits; biological networks (huebner@msu.edu)
Kuhn, Leslie (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Developing computational approaches for protein folding, ligand interactions, and design(KuhnL@msu.edu)
Lenski, Richard (Crop and Soil Science/Microbiology and Molecular Genetics/Zoology) (lenski@msu.edu)
Ofria, Charles (Computer Science and Engineering) (ofria@msu.edu)
Punch, William (Computer Science and Engineering) (punch@cse.msu.edu)
Torng, Eric (Computer Science and Engineering) Developing algorithms for identifying disulfide bonds given mass spectral data; Evaluating and developing algorithms for phylogeny reconstruction (torng@msu.edu)
Vieille, Claire (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Studying the determinants of protein thermostability using hyperthermophilic enzymes as models ; Changing enzyme substrate and cofactor specificities, changing enzyme stability to temperature and pH; Comparing flexibility in mesophilic and hyperthermophilic proteins by NMR and molecular dynamics (vieille@msu.edu)
Wedemeyer, Bill (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Physics and Astronomy) (proteins@msu.edu)
Yan, Honggao (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Protein structure, function and dynamics with applications to protein engineering and structure-based drug design (yanh@msu.edu)
 
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External Advisory Board

Adami, Chris (Digital Life Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences) Understanding how the fundamental principles of evolution shape genomes, populations, and ecosystems (adami@caltech.edu)
Banavar, Jayanth (Physics, Pennsylvania State University) (jayanth@phys.psu.edu)
Levy, Ronald (Rutgers University) Computational approaches to protein structure, folding, dynamics, and ligand binding; structural biology of transcription and macromolecular machines; Transcriptional regulation and gene expression, statistical models for biological networks (ronlevy@lutece.rutgers.edu)
Maggiora, Gerald (Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Institute for Biomedical Research and Biotechnology, University of Arizona) Includes drug design, ligand-protein interactions, protein structure, SAR; Relational methods in biology and mathematical modeling (maggiora@pharmacy.arizona.edu)
Sun, Fengzhu (Molecular Biology and Mathematics, University of Southern California) Mutation mechanisms of PCR, microsatellite evolution; Interaction networks, protein function (fsun@usc.edu)
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