Our Team

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Arlene Albert (opens in new window)

Professor Emeritus

Molecular and Cell Biology

Lipids,Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins, G-protein Receptor, Rhodopsin

arlene.albert@uconn.edu

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Nathan Alder (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Biogenesis and Function of Mitochondrial Membrane Proteins

nathan.alder@uconn.edu

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Andrei Alexandrescu (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Protein Structure and Folding, NMR Spectroscopy.

andrei.alexandrescu@uconn.edu

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Jeremy Balsbaugh (opens in new window)

Facility Director

Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility

Proteomics and Metabolomics, Mass Spectrometry

jeremy.balsbaugh@uconn.edu

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Marcy Balunas (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Drug Discovery, Chemical Ecology

marcy.balunas@uconn.edu

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Irina Bezsonova (opens in new window)

Assistant Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Ubiquitin-Proteasomal Pathway in Cancer, NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray Crystallography.

bezsonova@uchc.edu

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Robert Birge

Professor Emeritus

Chemistry

Structure Function Relationships in Rhodopsin and the Cone Pigments

robert.birge@uconn.edu

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Melissa Caimano (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Medicine

Lyme Disease/Borrelia burgdorferi 

mcaima@uchc.edu

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James Cole (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Innate Immunity Pathway for Defense Against Viral Infection, Analytical Ultracentrifugation, SAXS

james.cole@uconn.edu

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Heidi Erlandsen (opens in new window)

Facility Director

Molecular and Cell Biology

Biophysics Facility

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Harry Frank (opens in new window)

Professor Emeritus

Chemistry

Structure and Function of Biological Pigments and Pigment-protein Complexes, Ultrafast Time-resolved Optical Spectroscopy, EPR

harry.frank@uconn.edu

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Jose Gascon (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Chemistry

Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Methods in Bio-macromolecules, Structural and Electronic Properties of Protein Active Sites, Computational Modeling, Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles.

jose.gascon@uconn.edu

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Michael Gryk (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

NMR spectroscopy, Data Processing and Reproducibility

gryk@uchc.edu

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Kyle Hadden (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disorders

kyle.hadden@uconn.edu

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Bing Hao (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Ubiquitin E3 Ligases Altered in Cancer, Spore Germination Receptors, X-ray Crystallography

bhao@uchc.edu

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Jeffrey Hoch (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

NMR Spectroscopy, NMR Data Acquisition and Processing, Reproducible Computing for Bio-NMR, Director of Gregory P. Mullen NMR Structural Biology Facility,
Director of NMRbox: National Center for Biomolecular NMR Data Processing and Analysis

hoch@uchc.edu

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Kazem Kazerounian (opens in new window)

Professor, Dean of the School of Engineering

Institute of Materials Science

Nano-bio Mechanical Systems, Analysis and Design of Mechanisms, Machines and Gear Systems, Robotics, Analytical and Computational Kinematics, Design Optimization

kazem@engr.uconn.edu

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Debra Kendall (opens in new window)

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Biochemical and Biophysical Analyses of Membrane-interactive Proteins, Cannabinoid Receptor Activation and Signal Transduction, Allosteric Modulation of GPCRs

debra.kendall@uconn.edu

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Stephen King (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Molecular Motors, Cilia, Peptide Amidation, Electron Microscopy, NMR Spectroscopy, Director of UConn Health Central Electron Microscopy Facility

king@uchc.edu

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Dmitry Korzhnev (opens in new window)

Assistant Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

DNA Replication and Repair, Protein Structure and Dynamics, NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray Crystallography.

korzhniev@uchc.edu

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Mark Maciejewski (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

NMR Spectroscopy, Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions, Advanced Data Collection and Data Processing, NMRbox

markm@uchc.edu

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Eric May (opens in new window)

Assistant Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Computational Structural Virology, Molecular Modeling, Non-enveloped Virus Cell Entry, Mitochondrial Membrane Morphology

eric.may@uconn.edu

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Mark Peczuh (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Chemistry

Protein Small Molecule Interactions, Natural Product-like Small Molecules, Antibiotics

mark.peczuh@uconn.edu

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Justin Radolf (opens in new window)

Professor

Medicine

Lyme Disease/Borrelia burgdorferi, Syphilis/Treponema pallidum, Membrane Proteins

jradolf@uchc.edu

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Victoria Robinson (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Stress and Cellular Survival, Structural and Biochemical Properties of Prokaryotic GTPases, X-ray Crystallography, SAXS

victoria.robinson@uconn.edu

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Adam Schuyler (opens in new window)

Assistant Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Modeling of Protein Dynamics and Molecular Interactions,  Allostery,  Development of Nonuniform Sampling Approaches for multidimensional NMR, NMRbox

schuyler@uchc.edu

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Peter Setlow (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Spores of Bacteria of Bacillus Species, Spore Resistance and Germination, Germination Receptors

setlow@uchc.edu

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Ranjan Srivastava (opens in new window)

Professor

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Systems Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Biology, Tool Development

rs@uconn.edu

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Carolyn Teschke (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Fundamental Mechanisms of Protein Assembly, Virus Assembly, Bacterial Secretion

carolyn.teschke@uconn.edu

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Olga Vinogradova (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Protein-protein Interactions,  Membrane Proteins, Across-membrane Signal Transduction, NMR Spectrocopy

olga.vinogradova@uconn.edu

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Sandra Weller (opens in new window)

Professor

Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Mechanisms of Synthesis, Maturation, Cleavage and Packaging of Viral Genomes, HSV-1, Anti-viral Drug Discovery

weller@uchc.edu

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Simon White

Assistant Professor

Molecular and Cell Biology

Assembly of RNA viruses, Picornaviridae,  Cryo-electron Microscopy, Cell Biology, and Single Molecule Biophysics

simon.white@uconn.edu

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Dennis Wright (opens in new window)

Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Medicinal Chemistry, Structure-based Drug Design, Bioactive Natural Products, Small Molecule Library Design and Screening

dennis.wright@uconn.edu

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Xudong Yao (opens in new window)

Associate Professor

Chemistry

Mass Spectrometry and Omic Chemistry

x.yao@uconn.edu

Philip Yeagle

Professor Emeritus

Molecular and Cell Biology

Critical Problems of Membrane Protein Structure

philip.yeagle@uconn.edu