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QBI Executive Committee Members

 

David Arnosti David Arnosti, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Cell and Molecular Biology Program/Genetics Program) Identifying design principles of eukaryotic enhancers using embryonic gene expression in Drosophila (arnosti@msu.edu)
Robin Buell Robin Buell, (Plant Biology) Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, and Systems Biology of plant and plant pathogens genomes (buell@msu.edu)
Christina Chan Christina Chan, (Chemical Engineering and Material Science) Integrating various levels of information from genetic expression to metabolic data (krischan@egr.msu.edu)
Robert Cukier Robert Cukier ,(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)
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Chemistry) Modeling of supramolecular assemblies and membrane environments. Protein structure prediction and refinement (fergus20@msu.edu)
Wenjiang Fu Wenjiang Fu, (Epidemiology) Statistical and epidemiological research, including cancer studies, and methodological research in statistical computing and clinical trials (fuw@msu.edu)
Leslie Kuhn Leslie Kuhn, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Developing computational approaches for protein folding, ligand interactions, and design (KuhnL@msu.edu)
Claire Vieille Claire Vieille, (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)
Bill Wedemeyer Bill Wedemeyer, (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Physics and Astronomy) Self-assembling proteins, particularly those involved in bacterial secretion; protein folding and electrostatics (proteins@msu.edu)
David Weliky David Weliky, (Chemistry/Cell and Molecular Biology Program) NMR and crystallography for structure determination of viral fusion peptides and proteins (weliky@cem.msu.edu)