Members of the Center for RNA Biology

Juan Alfonzo, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Editing and Modification of tRNA: Roles in Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Disease

Irina Artsimovitch, Associate Professor of Microbiology
Molecular mechanism and regulation of transcription

Daniel Battle, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, Professor of Veterinary Biosciences
Post-transcriptional regulation of retroviruses and their host cells

Ralf Bundschuh, Associate Professor of Physics
Computational modeling of RNA structure and kinetics, RNA editing, sequence analysis

Dawn Chandler, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program
Mechanisms of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in the DNA damage response

Tien-Hsien Chang, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics
Roles of DExD/H-box proteins in the genetic information transfer pathway

James A Cowan Professor of Chemistry
Structure and chemistry of RNA as a drug target and the design of novel metallopharmaceuticals against viral and pathogen RNA motifs

Charles J. Daniels, Professor of Microbiology
tRNA metabolism in the Archaea

Mark Foster, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Protein-nucleic acid interactions, NMR spectroscopy, biophysical methods

Kurt Fredrick, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Ribosome structure and function

Venkat Gopalan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Structure-function relationships in RNase P, a catalytic RNP complex

Patrick L. Green, Professor of Veterinary Biosciences
Regulation of human T cell leukemia virus gene expression and cellular transformation

Tina M. Henkin, Professor of Microbiology
How nascent transcripts recognize specific effectors and use that information to control gene expression.

Anita Hopper, Professor of Molecular Genetics
Intracellular trafficking of RNA and proteins; Nucleus organization; RNA processing

Michael Ibba, Associate Professor of Microbiology
Quality control in aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis

Jane Jackman. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Molecular mechanisms of tRNA processing enzymes

Stephen J. Kolb, Assistant Professor of Neurology
RNA metabolism in neurological diseases

Joseph A. Krzycki, Professor of Microbiology
UAG recoding as pyrrolysine in methanogenic Archaea

Karin Musier-Forsyth, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and nucleic acid-protein interactions in HIV

Danilo Perrotti, Assistant Professor MVIMG
Oncogenic tyrosine kinases, signal transduction pathways and RNA binding proteins

Daniel R. Schoenberg, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Fundamental aspects of mRNA metabolism and the role of mRNA decay in inherited genetic disorders and cancer

Robin Wharton: Departments of Molecular Genetics and Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics