Gino Cingolani, Ph.D.
Director, UAB Center for Integrative Structural Biology
Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Cellular trafficking; Virus Structure and Assembly; Viral Genome Ejection
Stephen Aller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Structure and function of membrane proteins
David Bedwell, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept of Biochemistry and Mol Genetics
Research: Translation termination in eukaryotes
Juan Calix Jr, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Research: Bacterial pathogens; Infectious Diseases; microbial surface glycans
Debasish Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Research: Structural biology of enzyme pathways from pathogenic parasites
Champion CS Deivanayagam, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Adherence mechanisms of gram positive bacterial surface proteins
Terje Dokland, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structural biology of viral assembly and bacterial pathogenicity
Todd Green, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structure-function relationships of viral replication, capsid structure
Eugenia Kharlampieva, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Research: Design and synthesis of polymeric materials for controlled delivery of drugs and other applications
Pramod Kumar, Ph.D.
Scientist III
Research: Signal transduction; Ion Channels; cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Ravi K Lokareddy, Ph.D.
Scientist III
Research: Protein Biochemistry; Viral DNA Ejectosome; Bacteriophage Structure and Function
Aaron L. Lucius, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Research: Biophysical chemistry of proteins and protein-protein interactions
William M. Marsiglia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Research: Signal Transduction, PI3K-AKT signaling, chemical biology, protein-protein interactions, kinases, structural biology
Michael Niederweis, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Functions and structures of outer membrane proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Jan Novak, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structure and function of autoantibodies specific for aberrant glycoproteins found in human diseases
Chad Petit, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Molecular mechanisms of the influenza non-structural protein 1 (NS1)
William J. Placzek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Anti-cancer target validation and structure-based drug discovery using NMR
Peter E. Prevelige, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structural mass spectrometry of HIV1 and other macromolecules
Matthew B. Renfrow, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Analysis of protein glycosylation in human disease by high resolution mass spectrometry
Jamil Saad, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structural biology of proteins involved viral replication and cancer
Yuhua Song, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research: Identification and mechanism study of small molecule drug candidates for target proteins including immune receptor to regulate important cellular activities in Alzheimer's disease, cancer and other diseases using integrated computational bioengineering, computational biology, and experimental approaches
Sadanandan Velu, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Research: Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery
Mark R. Walter, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Research: Structure-function studies on host and viral proteins that alter the immune system
Pengfei Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Research: Chemical strategies to develop vaccines and vaccine adjuvants
Fengbin (Jerry) Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Research: Microbial appendages, self-assembled nanotubes, cryo-EM and method development
Jun Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research: Structural biology of intrinsically disordered and RNA-binding proteins; RNA splicing
Kevin Pawlik, Ph.D.
iSB Project Manager
E-mail: iSB@uab.edu