B-SURE
      Biomedical Summer Undergraduate
                 Research Experience
                            for Non-Biology Majors

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Faculty

FACULTY participating in 2006

Department of Biochemistry

P. John HART: X-ray crystallography; Molecular basis of ALS (Lou Gehig's disease); Structure of virulence factors in tularemia.
Andrew P. HINCK: TGFβ signaling; Structure determination by NMR spectroscopy.
Jean X. JIANG: Function and regulation of gap junctions.
Chongwoo A. KIM: X-ray crystallography; Structure and function of Polycomb Group proteins; Transcription repression.
John C. LEE: Structural and functional investigation of Osteogenic Protein-1 (OP-1).
Lee McALISTER-HENN: Metabolic regulation; structure and function of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) isoforms.
Donald G. McEWEN: Investigation of the JNK signaling pathway using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism.
Bruce J. NICHOLSON: Structure and function of gap junctions; connexins; gap junctions as tumor suppressors.
Jens WÖHNERT: Structural biology, RNA structure and function, RNA-protein interactions, RNA-ligand interactions, NMR-spectroscopy.

Yidong BAI: Mitochondrial functions at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and animal levels.
James D. LECHLEITER: Mechanisms that govern cell survival and cell death.
Merry LINDSEY: Extracellular matrix effects on cardiovascular disease.

Bandana CHATTERJEE: The androgen receptor in normal and aberrant cell growth and proliferation.
Maria GACZYNSKA: Role of the proteasome in cancer and aging; Atomic force microscopy.
P. Renee YEW: Cell cycle regulation.

William HALDENWANG: Molecular genetics; bacterial sporulation; RNA polymerase biochemistry.

Feng LIU: Insulin signal transduction; Type 2 Diabetes; Insulin and IGF-1 signaling pathways in aging.

Brad S. ROTHBERG: Molecular mechanism of ion channels; Ca⁺²-activated K⁺ channels.
Mark S. SHAPIRO: Physiology and regulation of neuronal ion channels.
James STOCKAND: Cellular and molecular mechanisms modulating the activity of epithelial ion channels.