Mair E. A. Churchill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology

• ribosomal DNA transcription;
• gram negative bacterial quorum sensing;
• transcriptional co-activation
  

Robert L. Garcea, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Cell and Structural Biology
Professor of Microbiology

• virus structure determination;
• anti-virus vaccines using recombinant capsid proteins;
• virus assembly mechanisms

Robert Hodges, Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Director, Program in Biomolecular Structure
John Stewart Endowed Chair, Peptide Chemistry

• development of antimicrobial peptides with broad spectrum activity;
• development of synthetic peptide vaccines and antibody therapeutics to pseudomonas aeruginosa;
• peptide/peptidomimetic therapeutics to pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  
  

Jeffrey S. Kieft, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

• initiation of translation by viral IRESes