Faculty
Training Faculty
Antalis, Toni, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Membrane serine proteases, tumor biology, vascular permeability and angiogenesis, intestinal barrier permeability, serine protease inhibitors (serpins)
TAntalis@som.umaryland.edu
Aurelian, Laure, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Ras activation, TAK1, neurodegeneration, carcinogenesis, epigenetics
laurelia@umnet.umaryland.edu
Blaustein, Mordecai, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Calcium, smooth muscle, neuron, Sarco-/Endoplasmic Reticulum, Ankyrin
MBlaustein@som.umaryland.edu
Bloch, Robert, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Muscular dystrophy, cytoskeleton, membrane domains, compartmentation of intracellular membranes, costameres
rbloch@umnet.umaryland.edu
Bond, Meredith, PhD, Professor & Chair
Department of Physiology
adrenergic signaling, Protein kinase A, A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), cardiac myocytes, calcium
MBond@som.umaryland.edu
Carbonetti, Nicholas, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Pertussis toxin, G protein signaling, cytokines and chemokines, inflammatory responses, immune cells
ncarbone@umnet.umaryland.edu
Drohat, Alexander, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
DNA repair & cancer, enzyme mechanisms, NMR & Structural Biology, protein structure & function, DNA Methylation & gene regulation
adroh001@umaryland.edu
Eckert, Richard L., PhD, Professor & Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Tumor suppressor, skin cell differentiation, stem cells, MAPK signaling, gene regulation
reckert@umaryland.edu
Fabris, Dan, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC
Structure/function of viral RNA and Rebonucleoproteins, Catalysis of RNA structure remodeling by HIV-1 nucleocapsid (NC) protein, Translational control of gene expression: readthrough and frameshifting mechanisms, Recognition between reverse transcriptase (RT) and cognate polypurine tract (PPT) substrates, Mechanism of drug inhibition, screening of ligand combinatorial libraries.
fabris@umbc.edu
Fraser-Liggett, Claire, PhD, Professor
Department of Medicine; Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
cmfraser@som.umaryland.edu
Fulton, Amy, PhD, Professor
Department of Pathology
afulton@som.umaryland.edu
Goldblum, Simeon, MD, Professor
Department of Medicine
Thrombospondin 1, Endotoxin/Toll-like receptor signaling, Zonula adherens, VE-cardherin, Phosphatase-mu
sgoldblu@medicine.umaryland.edu
Herzberg, Osnat, PhD, Professor
CARB
Structural biology, structural genomics, phosphotransfer reactions, human hyaloronidases, Giardia drug targets
herzberg@umbi.umd.edu
Kao, Joseph, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Calcium signaling, cellular neurophysiology, caged molecules, molecular probes, In vivo electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) imaging.
jkao@umaryland.edu
Kelman, Zvi, PhD, Associate Professor
CARB
Archaea, Cdc6, DNA binding, DNA replication, helicases, Initiation of DNA replication, MCM
kelman@umbi.umd.edu
Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Aikaterini, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structure/function of cytoskeletal proteins in striated muscle cells, cell signaling and muscle formation, myopathies and muscular dystrophies, apoptosis and heart failure.
akons001@umaryland.edu
Lederer, Jon, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Calcium, heart, spark, excitation-contraction coupling, arrhythmia
lederer@umbi.umd.edu
Liggett, Stephen, MD, Professor
Department of Medicine
G-protein coupled receptor structure/function, receptor genetic variation in heart and lung disease, genetically altered mice for studying signaling and human disease
sligg001@umaryland.edu
Lindberg, Iris, PhD, Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
ilind001@umaryland.edu
Lu-Chang, A-Lein, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
DNA repair, DNA damage response, cell cycle checkpoints, protein deacetylation, protein function/structure
aluchang@umaryland.edu
Lu, Wuyuan, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Defensin, antiviral and antitumor peptide, chemical protein synthesis, mirror image phage display, protein structure and function.
wlu@hv.umaryland.edu
Martin, Stuart, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
SSMartin@som.umaryland.edu
Mariuzza, Roy, PhD, Professor
CARB
Immunology, receptors, X-ray crystallography, autoimmunity, innate immunity
mariuzza@carb.nist.gov
Monteiro, Mervyn, PhD, Professor
Department of Neurology
Neurodegeneration, apoptosis, ER stress, oxidative stress, proteasome degradation
monteiro@umbi.umd.edu
Neuwald, Andrew, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Protein kinases, G protein coupled receptor signaling, Ras-like GTPases
aneuwald@som.umaryland.edu
Orban, John, PhD, Professor
CARB
john@carb.nist.gov
Raufman, Jean-Pierre, MD, Professor
Department of Medicine
Colon cancer, muscarinic receptors, acetylcholine, bile acids, signal transduction, NF-kappaB
jraufman@medicine.umaryland.edu
Schneider, Martin, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling, Calcium signaling, Activity-dependent muscle plasticity, Live cell imaging of transcriptional regulator nuclear/cytoplasmic translocation, Pho phosphatase and kinase regulation in muscle
mschneid@umaryland.edu
Shapiro, Paul, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UMB School of Pharmacy
Map kinases, Signal Transduction, Drug Development, Cancer
pshapiro@rx.umaryland.edu
Strickland, Dudley, PhD, Professor
Department of Surgery
DStrickland@som.umaryland.edu
Summers, Michael, PhD, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC
NMR, protein, RNA, structure, dynamics
summers@hhmi.umbc.edu
Tomkinson, Alan, PhD, Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
DNA damage signaling and repair, DNA ligase structure and function, Structure-based identification of inhibitors of the DNA damage response
ATomkinson@som.umaryland.edu
Vogel, Stephanie, PhD, Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SVogel@som.umaryland.edu
Wang, Lai-Xi, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Protein glycosylation, HIV vaccine, carbohydrate antigens, lectins, protein-carbohydrate interaction
lwang3@ihv.umarylan.edu
Weber, David, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
P53, cancer biology, NMR, S100 proteins, calcium-signaling
dweber@umaryland.edu
Welling, Paul, MD, Professor
Department of Physiology
Membrane Trafficking, serine - threonine kinases, Channelopathies, Cell Polarity
pwelling@umaryland.edu
Williams, Mark, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Hematopoietic cells, Reactive oxygen species, Protein tyrosine phosphatases, NADPH oxidases, Host defense
MarWilliams@som.umaryland.edu
Wilson, Gerald, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RNA-binding proteins, RNA turnover, RNA structure, tumor progression, fluorescence spectroscopy
gwils001@umaryland.edu
Yang, Austin, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
AYang@som.umaryland.edu
Resource Faculty
Ambulos, Nicholas, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
DNA sequencing, Gene Expression, Peptides, Genotyping, Protein characterization
nambulos@umaryland.edu
Bryan, Philip, Professor
CARB
bryan@umbi.umd.edu
Fasano, Alessio, PhD, Professor
Department of Pediatrics
mucosal biology, tight junctions, proteases, phosphorylation, protein-protein interactions
afasano@medicine.umaryland.edu
Fiskum, Gary, PhD, Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Mitochondria, bioenergetics, oxidative stress, neurochemistry, calcium homeostasis
gfiskum@anes.umm.edu
Gnatt, Averelle, PhD, Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Transcription, RNA Polymerase II, Gdown1, Cancer, Drug development
agnat001@umaryland.edu
Kalvakolanu, Dhan, PhD, Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cell signaling, growth control, transcription, apoptosis, tumor suppression
dkalvako@umaryland.edu
Lakowicz, Joseph, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fluorescence, nanotechnology, diagnostics, single molecule detection, biomolecule dynamics
jlako001@umaryland.edu
Rogers, Terry, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ca signaling, cardiac myocytes, stem cells, Ca channels, protein phosphorylation
trogers@umaryland.edu
Thompson, Richard, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fluorescence biosensors, zinc, copper, fiber optic sensors
rthompso@umaryland.edu
Toth, Eric, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoint, structural biology, X-ray crystallography, RNA processing
etoth001@umaryland.edu