Faculty

[Physiology & Biophysics]

Erkang Fan

Chemical biology, structure-based antibiotic design

Adjunct Faculty

[Pediatrics]

John Aitchison

Yeast cell biology, nucleocytoplasmic transport, peroxisomal assembly and function

Chip Asbury

Understanding how protein machines convert chemical energy into mechanical work

[FHCRC]

Antonio Bedalov

Cancer Biology; Gene Expression; Cell Cycle and Chromosome Biology; Genetics; Genomics and Evolution

Matthew Bush

Development and application of mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry techniques

[Neurology]

Jeffrey Chamberlain

Muscular dystrophy; dystrophin structure and function; gene therapy

[Bioengineering]

Valerie Daggett

Molecular dynamics; protein unfolding/folding

Michael Gelb

Lipid mediator production and inflammation; design of anti-parasite agents; proteomic methodolog

[Medicine]

Barbara Jung

Colorectal cancer, tumor genetics, and activin signaling and tumor progression

[Hematology]

Jose Lopez

Platelet adhesion; von Willebrand factor; vessel inflammation and occlusion

Dustin Maly

Chemical biology of signal transduction

[Mitochondria and Metabolism Center]

Nicholas M. Riley

Fundamental roles of glycosylation in cell surface biology, with a focus on glycocode regulation and dysregulation in cancer progression and metastasis

Rong Tian

Mitochondrial biology, immunometabolism, stem cell and cardiovascular diseases

[Pharmacology]

Ning Zheng

Ubiquitin ligase machinery in eukaryotic biolog

Emeritus Faculty

Note: Emeritus faculty are no longer accepting graduate students.

Trisha Davis

Chromosome dynamics, cytoskeleton, proteomics

Stephen Hauschka

Muscle development, gene regulation, and gene therapy

Wim Hol

Protein crystallography; drug design; genomics; tropical parasites

David Kimelman

Early zebrafish development

Ethan Merritt

Protein crystallograhy; structural genomics

David Morris

Transcriptional and translational control in mammalian cells

Eric Muller

Yeast functional genomics; protein/protein interactions

William Parson

Photosynthesis; protein dynamics

Philip Petra

Protein chemistry; steroid/protein interaction

John Saari

Cycling and regeneration of visual pigments

Christophe Verlinde

Structure-based drug design

Kenneth Walsh

Mass spectrometry/phosphoproteins

[Departmental Web Page]

Alan Weiner

Chromosome fragility; small nuclear RNAs; CCA-adding enzyme

Ted Young

Transcriptional regulation in yeas

Affiliate Faculty

Note: affiliate faculty are not available for thesis research through the Biochemistry Graduate Program

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Jihong Bai

Synaptic protein dynamics, vesicle endocytosis, and remodeling

Sue Biggins

Chromosome segregation in budding yeast

Philip Bradley

Structural modeling of protein-DNA and protein-peptide interaction specificity

Melody Campbell

Cell communication and environmental interactions

Jonathan Cooper

Signal transduction pathways

Robert Eisenman

Transcriptional control by the myc/max/mad network

Steven Hahn

Transcription regulatory mechanisms

Emily Hatch

Molecular mechanisms of the nuclear envelope

Akhila Rajan

How energy availability is sensed, communicated and integrated

Mark Roth

Chromosome dynamics; SR proteins; anoxia in zebrafish

Barry Stoddard

Protein crystallography; reaction intermediates; homing endonucleases

Roland Strong

Protein crystallography; molecular recognition in innate immune system responses

Lucas Sullivan

Cell metabolism under normal and cancerous conditions

Toshio Tsukiyama

Chromatin remodeling in transcription and meiosis

Allen Institute for Brain Science

[Profile]

Hongkui Zeng

Molecular neuroscience, genetics

Institute for Systems Biology