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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: B212/ B218 / A228 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1909 / 542-3023
Functional and structural genomics, metabolism and enzymology of organisms that grow near 100C

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
Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar of Molecular Cell Biology, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scientist
E-mail: sdalton@uga.edu
Office: S245 Paul D. Coverdell Center, Phone: 706 583 0480, Lab: 706 583 0556, Lab Phone: 706 583 0556
Stem cells, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, autoimmune disease, inflammation, spinal cord injury.

Darvill, Alan
Regents Professor
and Director, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
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

Dean, Jeffrey F. D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
and Professor of Forest Biotechnology
E-mail: jeffdean@uga.edu
Office: B314B Life Sciences Building, Phone: 706-542-1710, Lab: B316 Life Sciences Building, Lab Phone: 706-542-1436
Genomic analysis of pines and conifers, and biosynthesis and degradation of lignocellulosic materials

DerVartanian, Daniel V.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail: dervar@bmb.uga.edu
Office: Rm. 400 Biosciences Building and A220A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1693, Lab: A218 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-1779
Study of inhibition of glucose breakdown in cancer cells

Gilbert, Harry
Professor
E-mail: hgilbert@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 315 Riverband Road, Phone: 583-0655
Enzymes that modify the structure of complex carbohydrates; primarily glycoside hydrolases and glycosyltransferases

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 and Head of the Department
E-mail: shajduk@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B129 Life Sciences, Phone: 542-1676, Lab: B116
RNA Editing; Mitochondrial Biogenesis; African Trypanosomes; Innate Immunity; High Density Lipoproteins

Kannan, Natarajan
Assistant Professor
E-mail: kannan@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A318, Phone: 542-7326
genomics, cancer informatics, evolutionary systems biology, computational structural biology, protein phosphorylation

Lanzilotta, William N.
Associate Professor
E-mail: wlanzilo@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A220B Life Sciences, Phone: 706-542-1324, Lab Phone: 542-1573
The atomic details of the terminal steps in heme biosynthesis as well as heme transport and biosensing in biology.

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

Medlock, Amy
Assistant Professor
E-mail: medlock@uga.edu
Office: N230 Coverdell Center, Phone: (706) 542-7843, Lab: N226 Coverdell Center, Lab Phone: (706) 542-7252
Understanding intracellular and intercellular heme transport

Mohnen, Debra
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, Michael J.
Distinguished Research Professor
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: 1075 CCRC, 1045 CCRC, A126 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 542-0257 / 583-8192
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

Puett, David J.
Regents Professor
E-mail: puett@bmb.uga.edu
Office: B302B Life Sciences, Phone: 706-542-0004, Lab: B322 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 706-542-1718
Molecular & cellular reproductive biochemical endocrinology, 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
X-ray structural biology, the mitochondrial inner membrane space transport system, structure based vaccine and therapeutic design, improved/automated methods for synchrotron SAD data collection and structure determination.

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
Biosynthesis and function of modified DNA. Regulation of gene expression, DNA recombination and parasite pathogenesis. African and South American Trypanosomes.

Schmidt, Walter K.
Associate Professor
Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar
Chair BCMB Graduate Admissions Committee
E-mail: wschmidt@bmb.uga.edu
Office: A414B Life Sciences, Phone: 706-583-8241, Lab: A416 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: 706-583-8242
Studies of proteases involved in the processing of isoprenylated proteins and amyloidogenic peptides

Scott, Robert A.
Distinguished Research Professor
Associate Vice President for Research
E-mail: rscott@uga.edu
Office: 604A Boyd GSRC, Phone: 542-3739, Lab: 674 Chemistry, Lab Phone: 542-2270
Biophysical analysis of metallobiochemical systems using X-ray absorption spectroscopy; systems biology approaches to discovery of transcriptional regulation of microbiological hydrogen production as part of an alternative energy project.

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
We are studying the biogenesis, trafficking and function of non-coding RNA-protein complexes with the goal of improving the understanding and treatment of human disease.

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 of Chemistry, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
E-mail: urbauer@chem.uga.edu
Office: A310/A120B Life Sciences, Phone: (706) 542-7922, Lab: A310 Life Sciences, Lab Phone: (706) 542-7923
Transcription regulation, steroid hormone receptors, estrogen receptor, breast cancer, oxidative stress, calcium signaling, calmodulin, NMR spectroscopy, physical biochemistry

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 and Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar
E-mail: lwang@ccrc.uga.edu
Office: 3005 CCRC, Phone: 542-6445, Lab: 3002 CCRC, Lab Phone: 542-4683
Heparan sulfate proteoglycan, angiogenesis, tumorigenesis, tumor metastasis, stem cell, coagulation

Wells, Lance
DGS and Assistant Professor
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
Role of post-translational modifications, primarily O-glycosylation, in human diseases including type II diabetes, cancer, and congenital muscular dystrophy.

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: A110A Life Sciences, Phone: 542-9779, Lab Phone: (706) 542-9779
Bioinformatics, computational structural and systems biology

York, William S.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and 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
E-mail: miltcormier@yahoo.com

Dure, Leon S.
Franklin Professor Emeritus
E-mail: ldure@uga.edu

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

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

Mendicino, Joseph
Professor Emeritus
E-mail: mendicino@bmb.uga.edu

Srivastava, Prakash N.
Professor Emeritus

Travis, James
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
E-mail: jtravis@uga.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mensa-Wilmot, Kojo
Department of Cellular Biology
E-mail: mensawil@cb.uga.edu
Phone: 542-3355

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

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




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