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Adams, Michael W. W.
Distinguished Research Professor
E-mail: adams@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B216B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-2060, Lab: B218 / A228 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1909 / 542-3023
Functional and structural genomics, metabolism and enzymology of organisms that grow near 100°C

Adang, Michael J.
Professor, Entomology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Director, Applied Biotechnology Degree Program
E-mail: adang@uga.edu
Office: 427 Biological Sciences, Phone: 542-2436
Characterization of bacillus thuringiensis toxins and receptors in insect midgut membranes

Albersheim, Peter
Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry and Plant Biology
Emeritus Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC)
E-mail: palbersh@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2013 CCRC, Phone: 542-4404
Structures and functions of biologically active plant cell wall oligo- and polysaccharides

Black, Clanton C.
Distinguished Research Professor
E-mail: ccblack@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A314A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1778, Lab: A310 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1780

Brewer, John M.
Professor
E-mail: brewer@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A314B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1773, Lab: A316 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1776
Intersubunit interactions in enolases

Carlson, Russell W.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
CCRC Executive Technical Director - Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates
E-mail: rcarlson@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2043 CCRC, Phone: 542-4439, Lab: 2029 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4479
The structures and roles of bacterial glycoconjugates in microbe-plant and -animal interactions

Dailey, Harry A.
Professor and Director
E-mail: hdailey@uga.edu
Office: N230B Coverdell Center, Phone: 542-2690, Lab: N226 Coverdell, Lab Phone: 542-2690
Studies on the regulation of heme synthesis and structure/function of heme pathway enzymes

Dalton, Stephen
Associate Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar of Molecular Cell Biology
E-mail: sdalton@uga.edu
Office: S245 Paul D. Coverdell Center, Phone: 583-0480
Stem cell differentiation and cell cycle control

Darvill, Alan
Regents Professor and Director, CCRC
E-mail: adarvill@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2020 CCRC, Phone: 542-4411, Lab: 2063 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-2062
Structures and functions of the noncellulosic polysaccharides of plant primary cell walls

DerVartanian, Daniel V.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Microbiology and Chairman, Division of Biological Sciences
E-mail: dervar@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A220A Life Sciences
400 Biological Sciences Building, Phone: 542-4620, Lab: A218 Life Sciences / Biol. Science., Lab Phone: 542-1779 / 542-1693
Study of nickel-containing proteins or enzymes from heart tissue as marker for heart attacks

Glover, Claiborne V. C.
Professor
E-mail: glover@uga.edu
Office: A414A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1769, Lab: A410 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1768
Protein phosphorylation in budding yeast

Hajduk, Stephen L.
Professor & Head of the Department
E-mail: shajduk@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B129 Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1676

Lanzilotta, William N.
Associate Professor
E-mail: wlanzilo@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A220B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1324 Lab Phone: 542-1573
Crystallographic investigation of nutrient sensing, transport, and metabolism by enteric pathogens

Lee, David
Professor and Vice President of Research
E-mail: dclee@uga.edu
Office: 609 Boyd Graduate Studies, Phone: 542-5969

Mendicino, Joseph F.
Professor
E-mail: mendicin@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B210A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-3010, Lab: B212 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-3010
Role of glycosyltransferases and sulfotransferases in the pathology of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases

Mohnen, Debra
Associate Professor
E-mail: dmohnen@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2044 CCRC, Phone: 542-4458, Lab: 2047 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4499
Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin. Anti-cancer effects of pectin

Moremen, Kelley W.
Professor
E-mail: moremen@uga.edu
Office: 3055 CCRC, Phone: 542-1705, Lab: 3055 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-1706
Biochemistry, molecular, and structural biology of mammalian glycoprotein biosynthesis and catabolism

Orlando, Ron
Associate Professor
E-mail: orlando@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 1078 CCRC, Phone: 542-4429, Lab: 1080 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4414
Solving biological/biomedical problems with mass spectrometry

Pierce, J. Michael
Distinguished Research Professor and Director of UGA Cancer Center
E-mail: hawkeye@uga.edu
Office: 3056 CCRC, Phone: 542-1702, Lab: 3059/3060 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-1701
Glycosyltransferase regulation of tumor cell adhesion and invasion; structure/function of lectins

Prestegard, James H.
Professor and Eminent Scholar
E-mail: jpresteg@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 1077 CCRC, Phone: 542-6281, Lab: 1045 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-0257
Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to the characterization of biologically important systems

Przybyla, Alan E.
Professor
E-mail: przybyla@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A420B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1728, Lab: A422 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1720
Our laboratory employs recombinant technology to investigate the role of beta amyloid peptide fibrilization in the onset of Alzheimer's disease

Puett, J. David
Regents Professor
E-mail: puett@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B302B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-0004, Lab: B322 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1718
Molecular & cellular reproductive biochemical endocrinology emphasizing G protein-coupled receptors. Tumor biology and early cancer detection

Rose, John
Associate Professor
E-mail: rose@bcl4.bmb.uga.edu
Office: B204B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1750

Sabatini, Robert
Assistant Professor
E-mail: rsabatini@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A128B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-9806, Lab: A130 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 227-4478

Schmidt, Walter K.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: wschmidt@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A414B Life Sciences, Phone: 583-8241 Lab Phone: 583-8242
Molecular and biochemical analyses of eukaryotic proteases required for the production of isoprenylated proteins

Scott, Robert A.
Distinguished Research Professor
Associate Vice President for Research
E-mail: scott@chem.uga.edu
Office: 604A Boyd GSRC, Phone: 542-3739, Lab: 674 Chemistry, Lab Phone: 542-2270

Steet, Richard A.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Adjunct Cellular Biology
E-mail: rsteet@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 3034 CCRC, Phone: 583-5550, Lab: 3038 CCRC, Lab Phone: 583-5551
Identification, characterization and pathogenesis of congenital disorders involving abnormal glycosylation.

Terns, Michael P.
Professor
E-mail: mterns@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A326B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1896, Lab: A328 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-3520
Assembly, transport and function of non-coding RNA protein complexes important in the etiology of neuromuscular disease and cancer

Tiemeyer, Michael
Associate Professor
E-mail: mtiemeyer@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 3019 CCRC, Phone: 542-2740, Lab: 3019 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-2740
Mechanisms that regulate the expression, function, and structure of tissue-specific glycans

Urbauer, Jeffrey
Associate Professor
E-mail: urbauer@chem.uga.edu
Office: A308A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-7922, Lab: A310 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-7923
Prokaryotic transcription regulation, oxidative stress and calmodulin emphasizing NMR spectroscopy

Wang, B. C.
Professor and Ramsey/Georgia Research Alliance (GRA)
Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology
E-mail: wang@bcl1.bmb.uga.edu
Office: B204A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1747, Lab: B202, B212A, A210 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-3384 / 542-1086
Structure-function studies by X-ray diffraction, transcription proteins, structural genomics, phasing methods

Wang, Lianchun
Assistant Professor
E-mail: lwang@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 3005 CCRC, Phone: 542-6445, Lab: 3002 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4683

Wells, Lance
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar
E-mail: lwells@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 3018 CCRC, Phone: 542-7806, Lab: 3018 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-7806
Regulatory role of nutrient-sensitive protein modifications in the development of type II diabetes and cancer

Wood, Zachary
Assistant Professor
E-mail: zac@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A426B Life Sciences, Phone: 583-0304, Lab: A428 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 583-0303
X-ray crystallographic and biochemical studies of nucleotide sugar metabolism

Woods, Robert J.
Professor
E-mail: rwoods@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 1089 CCRC, Phone: 542-4454, Lab: 2069 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-3508
Immunological carbohydrate-protein interactions studied by computational simulation and experimental methods

Xu, Ying
Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Professor
E-mail: xyn@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A108A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-9779
Bioinformatics, computational structural and systems biology

York, William S.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Computer Science
E-mail: will@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2081 CCRC, Phone: 542-4628, Lab: 2083 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4419
Structure, function, and assembly of plant cell walls; Bioinformatics for glycomics and glycobiology

Zhao, Shaying
Assistant Professor
E-mail: szhao@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B314B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-9147, Lab: B316 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-0145

EMERITUS FACULTY
Cormier, Milton J.
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
 

Dure, Leon S.
Franklin Professor Emeritus
E-mail: ldure@uga.edu
Office: A426B Life Sciences, Phone: 542-2086, Lab: A428 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1762

Eriksson, Karl-Erik L.
Professor Emeritus
 

Lee, John W.
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: jlee@uga.edu
Office: A128A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1764 Lab Phone: 542-1764

Ljungdahl, Lars G.
Georgia Power Distinguished Professor Emeritus
E-mail: larsljd@uga.edu
Office: A214 Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1846, Lab: A210 / A216 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1086

Makula, Ronald A.
Fermentation Facility Director Emeritus
 

Sansing, Norman G.
Associate Professor Emeritus
E-mail: sansing@bmb.uga.edu
Phone: 542-7378

Srivastava, Prakash N.
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: srivas@bmb.uga.edu
Phone: 542-1775

Travis, James
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
E-mail: jtravis@uga.edu
Office: A320A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1711, Lab: A318 / A322 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1713

Wampler, John E.
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: wampler@bmb.uga.edu

ADJUNCT
Bar-Peled, Maor
Department of Plant Biology & CCRC
E-mail: peled@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 2080 CCRC, Phone: 542-4496, Lab: 2076 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-2062
Biosynthesis of nucleotide-sugars and wall polysaccharides

Bedell, Mary
Department of Genetics
E-mail: bedell@uga.edu
Phone: 542-0288

Cordonnier-Pratt, Marie-Michele
Department of Plant Biology & Research Services
E-mail: mmpratt@uga.edu
Office: 3609 Plant Sciences, Phone: 542-1860 Lab Phone: 542-1834

Dean, Jeffrey F. D.
School of Forest Resources
E-mail: jeffdean@uga.edu
Phone: 542-1710

DeSa, Richard
President, OLIS Instruments
E-mail: webmaster@olisweb.com

Ergul, Adviye
School of Pharmacy
E-mail: aergul@mail.mcg.edu
Office: School of Pharmacy, Phone: 721-6491

Fechheimer, Marcus
Department of Cellular Biology
E-mail: fechheim@cb.uga.edu
Phone: 542-3338

Galen, Robert S.
Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology
E-mail: bobgalen@aol.com
Phone: 542-5770

Hahn, Michael G.
Department of Plant Biology & CCRC
E-mail: hahn@ccrc.uga.edu
Phone: 542-4457

Johnson, Michael K.
Department of Chemistry
E-mail: johnson@chem.uga.edu
Phone: 542-9378

Kurtz, Donald M.
Department of Chemistry
E-mail: kurtz@www.chem.uga.edu
Phone: 542-2016

Law, John H.
Department of Entomology
E-mail: jhlaw@bugs.ent.uga.edu
Phone: 542-2364

Legault, Pascale
University of Montreal
 

Manley, Nancy
Department of Genetics
E-mail: nmanley@uga.edu
Phone: 542-5861

Mensa-Wilmot, Kojo
Department of Cellular Biology
E-mail: mensawil@cb.uga.edu
Phone: 542-3355
Protein import into organelles; gene expression; glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI); parasitology

Müller, Franz
Sandoz Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland
 

Omichinski, James G.
University of Montreal
 

Patel, Gordhan L.
Department of Cellular Biology
E-mail: gpatel@uga.edu
Phone: 542-5969

Phillips, Robert S.
Department of Chemistry
E-mail: phillips@sunchem.uga.edu
Phone: 542-1996

Pratt, Lee
Department of Plant Biology & Research Services
E-mail: leepratt@uga.edu
Office: 3605 Plant Sciences, Phone: 542-1841 Lab Phone: 542-1834
Genomics and bioinformatics

Stice, Steven
Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences
 
Phone: 583-0071

Whitman, William B.
Department of Microbiology
E-mail: whitman@uga.edu
Phone: 542-4219

Wiegel, Juergen
Department of Microbiology
E-mail: jwiegel@uga.edu
Phone: 542-2651
Isolation and microbial / biochemical studies of aerobic / anaerobic (halophilic) alkalithermophiles (Nevada, Egypt, Kamchatka-Siberia)




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