Biology department faculty

Faculty Honors
Karen Beemon
Professor
(410) 516-7289
klb@jhu.edu
Role of TERT and microRNAs in oncogenesis, Retroviral RNA stability

Ludwig Brand
Professor
(410) 516-7298
ludwig.brand@jhu.edu
Conformation and Activity of Biological Macromolecules with Emphasis on Applications of Fluorescence Techniques.

Thomas A. Cebula
Visiting Professor
(410) 516-7285
tcebula1@jhu.edu
Evolution and adaptation of enteric pathogens.

Xin Chen
Assistant Professor
(410) 516-4576
xchen32@jhu.edu
Epigenetic regulation of Drosophila germ cell differentiation from a stem cell lineage.

Kyle Cunningham
Professor
(410) 516-7844
kwc@jhu.edu
Calcium signaling and mechanisms of gene expression in yeast.

Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Associate Research Professor
(410) 516-8498
jdiruggiero@jhu.edu
DNA Repair Project: What are the mechanisms for the repair of DNA lesions in Archaea?

Michael Edidin
Professor
(410) 516-7294
edidin@jhu.edu
Membrane organization and dynamics; immunology.

Emily Fisher
Lecturer
(410) 516-7330
efishe21@jhu.edu

Ernesto Freire
Professor
(410) 516-7743
ef@jhu.edu
Structure-Based Thermodynamics of Molecular Recognition and Function.

Samer Hattar
Assistant Professor
(410) 516-4231
shattar@jhu.edu
Light reception for non-image detection: role of rods, cones and the new photoreceptors (melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells).

Edward Hedgecock
Professor
(410) 516-8761
ehedgec1@jhu.edu
Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Blake Hill
Associate Professor
(410) 516-6783
hill@jhu.edu
Protein design, protein folding and structure; NMR spectroscopy.

Robert Horner
Senior Lecturer
(410) 516-8067
rdhorner@jhu.edu

Andy Hoyt
Professor
(410) 516-7299
hoyt@jhu.edu
Yeast chromosome segregation with emphasis on mitotic motor proteins; cell cycle regulation.

Ru Chih Huang
Professor
(410) 516-5181
rhuang@jhu.edu
Gene regulation, molecular virology, retrotransposition, and chromosomal structure and function.

Beatrice Kondo
Lecturer
(410) 516-7855
bkondo@jhu.edu
Using phylogenetic and population genetic techniques to study speciation and evolution in complex behaviors among the New World Orioles (genus Icterus).

Rejji Kuruvilla
Assistant Professor
(410) 516-2366
rkuruvilla@jhu.edu
Control of neuronal development by target-derived neurotrophins.

Yuan Chuan Lee
Professor
(410) 516-7041
yclee@jhu.edu
Glycobiology, glycotechnology, and glyconanotechnology.

Richard McCarty
Professor Emeritus, Professor Part-Time
(410) 516-5356
rem1@jhu.edu
Structure, mechanism, and regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase; chloroplast metabolite transport.

Evangelos Moudrianakis
Professor
(410) 516-7305
vanm@jhu.edu
Assembly and dynamics of nucleoproteins and chromosomes; bacterial and chloroplast bioenergetics.

Carolyn Norris
Senior Lecturer
(410) 516-4666
crn@jhu.edu

Rebecca Pearlman
Lecturer
(410) 516-3379
pearlman@jhu.edu

Paula Pitha-Rowe
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 516-6954
parowe@jhmi.edu
Antiviral response to infectious pathogenes

Peter Privalov
Professor
(410) 516-6532
privalov@jhu.edu
Physical basis of the structure of biological molecules and their complexes.

Saul Roseman
Professor
(410) 516-7333
roseman@jhu.edu
Carbohydrate metabolism and transport.

Joel Schildbach
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
(410) 516-0176
joel@jhu.edu
Structural biology of bacterial conjugation.

Robert Schleif
Professor
(410) 516-5206
schleif@jhu.edu
Protein-DNA interactions and regulation of gene activity.

Trina Schroer
Professor
(410) 516-5373
schroer@jhu.edu
Microtubule-based motor proteins and their roles in cellular architecture.

Richard Shingles
Lecturer
(410) 516-4679
shingles@jhu.edu

Mark Van Doren
Associate Professor
(410) 516-4717
vandoren@jhu.edu
Germ cell development and gonad formation.

Beverly Wendland
Professor and Chair
(410) 516-0460
bwendland@jhu.edu
Molecular mechanisms of endocytosis in yeast and mammalian cells.

David Zappulla
Assistant Professor
(410) 516-8749
zappulla@jhu.edu
The telomerase RNA-protein complex, chromosomes and aging.

Haiqing Zhao
Associate Professor
(410) 516-7391
hzhao@jhu.edu
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the development and function of olfactory sensory neurons.

Emeritus Faculty
Maurice J. Bessman
Professor Emeritus
(410) 516-7776
zoot@jhu.edu
Metabolism of nucleotides and nucleic acids; proteomics.

Douglas Fambrough
Professor Emeritus
(410) 516-5174
fambro@jhu.edu
Membrane proteins, targeting structure, function, and regulation; Na,K-ATPase, LAMP-1 and -2.

Howard Seliger
Professor Emeritus
(410) 516-7307
seliger@jhu.edu

Allen Shearn
Professor Emeritus
(410) 516-7285
bio_cals@jhu.edu
Normal and tumorous imaginal disk development studied in mutants of Drosophila.

Joint Appointments
Douglas Barrick
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-0409
barrick@jhu.edu
Determination of an atomic-level description of structure and function in proteins.

Gregory Bowman
Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-7850
gdbowman@jhu.edu
Chromatin structure and nucleosome remodeling.

Richard Cone
Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-7259
cone@jhu.edu
Mucosal immune protection; contraception.

Patrick Cummings
Assoc. Prog. Chair for Biotechnology
(410) 516-4724
cupat@jhu.edu

David E. Draper
Professor, Department of Chemistry
(410) 516-7448
draper@jhu.edu
RNA folding, RNA-Protein interactions, ribosome assembly and function.

Karen Fleming
Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 554-1244
Karen.Fleming@jhu.edu
Structure, energetics and folding of membrane proteins.

Bertrand E. Garcia-Moreno
Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-4497
bertrand@jhu.edu
Biophysical chemistry of regulatory interactions in proteins, nucleic acids, and their assemblies.

Lynn Johnson-Langer
Assoc. Prog. Chair for Biotechnology
(301) 294-7063
llanger@jhu.edu

Juliette Lecomte
Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-7019
juliette@jhu.edu
NMR Spectroscopy and Protein Structure

Kristina Obom
Assoc. Prog. Chair for Biotechnology
(301) 294-7063
kobom@jhu.edu

George Rose
Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-7244
grose@jhu.edu
Protein and RNA folding.

Craig A. Townsend
Professor, Department of Chemistry
(410) 516-7444
ctownsend@jhu.edu
Synthesis of natural products, stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action.

Sarah Woodson
Professor, Department of Biophysics
(410) 516-2015
swoodson@jhu.edu
Determination of three dimensional folding of RNA.

Adjunct Appointments
Jef Boeke
Professor, School of Medicine, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 955-0398
jboeke@jhmi.edu
The molecular dissection of yeast retrotransposon Ty1, its assembly, reverse transcription and integration reactions as well as its interactions with host factors.

Alex Bortvin
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3034
bortvin@ciwemb.edu
Genetic and epigenetic controls of germ cell development and function in vertebrates.

Donald Brown
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3052
brown@ciwemb.edu
Amphibian Metamorphosis

Victor Corces
Professor and Chair, Emory University, Department of Biology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(404) 727-4234
vcorces@emory.edu
study of the organization of the chromatin fiber within the eukaryotic nucleus

Jonathan Eisen
Professor, University of California, Davis
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology

jaeisen@ucdavis.edu
Sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis.

Chen-Ming Fan
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3022
fan@ciwemb.edu
Molecular patterning and embryonic induction during mouse early development.

Steven Farber
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3072
farber@ciwemb.edu
Real-time imaging of lipid metabolism in live zebrafish; identification of genes which regulate cholesterol absorption using biochemical and genetic strategies.

Andrew Fire
Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine,
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(650) 723-2885
afire@stanford.edu
Cellular Response to Genetic Change

Joseph Gall
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3017
gall@ciwemb.edu
Chromosome structure and function; nucleic acids in development.

Marnie Halpern
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3018
halpern@ciwemb.edu
Zebra fish neural development.

Douglas Koshland
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3016
koshland@ciwemb.edu
Molecular analysis of chromosome folding and its impact on genomic stability.

Christopher Ruff
Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 955-7126
cbruff@jhmi.edu

Robert F. Siliciano
Professor, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 955-2958
rsiliciano@jhmi.edu

Allan Spradling
Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3021
spradling@ciwemb.edu
Drosophila genomics.

Mark Teaford
Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution, School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 955-7034
mteaford@jhmi.edu

Yixian Zheng
Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
(410) 246-3032
zheng@ciwemb.edu
Biochemical, structural, and genetic analysis of microtubule organization and cell division.