Graduate Program

Department Faculty

ACKERMAN, Sharon H., Associate Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry. Ph.D., New York University, 1987; postdoctoral, Columbia University, 1987-91. Assembly of the mitochondrial FoF1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. sackerm@med.wayne.edu

AKINS, Robert A., Associate Professor. Ph.D., Ohio State Univ., 1982; postdoctoral, St. Louis University Medical Center, 1982-86. Molecular genetics of Neurospora mitochondria; developmental biology of Neurospora. rakins@med.wayne.wayne.edu

BHATTACHARJEE, Hiranmoy, Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Jadavpur University, 1992. postdoctoral, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 1993-1999. Mechanisms of metalloid resistance in mammals. hbhattac@med.wayne.edu

BRUSILOW, William S., Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1980; postdoctoral, Stanford University, 1980-83. Regulation of gene expression in the E. coli unc operon. wbrusilo@med.wayne.edu

DOSCHER, Marilynn S., Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Washington, 1959; postdoctoral, Yale University, 1960-64; Brookhaven National Laboratory 1964-67. Synthesis and characterization of semisynthetic ribonuclease derivatives; peptide synthesis for study of allergic response mechanisms; methodology of peptide synthesis. mdoscher@med.wayne.edu

EDWARDS, Brian F.P., Professor. Ph.D., Harvard, 1975; postdoctoral, Harvard University 1974-75; University of Alberta, 1975-77. Structural and functional analysis by x-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance of proteins involved with hemostasis, nucleic acid metabolism and muscle contraction. bedwards@med.wayne.edu

EVANS, David R., Professor. Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1968; postdoctoral, Harvard University, 1968-75. Structure, interdomain signaling, and regulation by signaling cascades of large multidomain protein complexes that initiate pyrimidine biosynthesis; structure and catalytic mechanism of dihydroorotase; adaptive mechanisms of hyperthermophillic archeabacterial proteins. devans@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu

FINLEY, Russell L., Associate Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics.  Ph.D., SUNY Upstate Medical University, 1990; postdoctoral, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital 1990-1995. Regulatory networks that control cell proliferation; cell cycle regulation during Drosophila development; yeast technology to characterize protein interaction networks. rfinley@wayne.edu

GATTI, Domenico L., M.D. Associate Professor. M.D., Catholic University of S. Cuore, Rome, Italy, 1982; Ph.D., University of Bari, Italy, 1987; postdoctoral, Columbia University, 1987-91; University of Michigan, 1991-95. Structure of proteins involved in energy transduction in bacterial and eukaryotic membranes. mimo@boatman.med.wayne.edu

HO, Ye-Shih, Professor. Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1981; postdoctoral, University of California, San Francisco, 1982-85. Transgenic models for the study of lung biology and disease; regulation of superoxide dismutase gene expression. y.ho@wayne.edu

JOHNSON, Robert M., Professor.  Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970; postdoctoral, Cornell University, 1970-73.  Structure and function of erythrocyte membranes; anti-oxidants; globin gene expression. rmjohns@med.wayne.edu

KOVARI, Ladislau C., Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 1992; postdoctoral, Purdue University, 1992-1997. Structure of HIV proteins by x-ray crystallography. kovari@med.wayne.edu

LEE, Chuan-pu "C. P.", Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1961; postdoctoral, Oregon State Univ, 1960-61; Univ Pennsylvania, 1961-63; Univ Stockholm, 1963-65. Cellular energy metabolism; respiratory chain linked energy transduction; structure-function relationship of biological membranes. cplee@med.wayne.edu

LIGHTBODY, James J., Associate Professor. Ph.D., Wayne State Univ, 1966; postdoctoral, Brandeis University, 1967-69; Basel Inst Immunol, 1970-71. Lymphocyte-mediated immunological reactions; biochemical basis of immunodeficiency diseases. lightbod@med.wayne.edu

MALKIN, Leonard I., Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California-San Francisco, 1962; postdoctoral, Brown University, 1963-65; MIT, 1965-68. Mechanisms of protein biosynthesis and their control of higher organisms. lmalkin@med.wayne.edu

MITCHELL, Robert A., Associate Professor. Ph.D., Queen's Univ, Belfast, 1960; postdoctoral, Oklahoma State Univ, 1960-62; UCLA, 1962-65. Cellular energy metabolism and 18O applications in the study of enzymic and non-enzymic reactions. ramitchel@med.wayne.edu

MITRA, Bharati, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990, postdoctoral, Univ Maryland, 1990-94. Structure-function relationships in proteins, enzyme mechanisms. Flavoproteins that carry out hydroxy acid dehydrogenations; P-type ATPases that transport transition and heavy metals.  bmitra@med.wayne.edu

MUKHOPADHYAY, Rita, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., , 1995, postdoctoral, Wayne State Univ Sch Med, 1995-2001, Mechanisms of arsenical resistance in Leishmania and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, rmukhopa@med.wayne.edu

NEEDLEMAN, Richard B., Professor. Ph.D., CUNY, 1975; postdoctoral, Albert Einstein Coll Medicine, 1975-78. Control of enzyme synthesis in yeast; mitochondrial genetics; genetics of bacteriorhodopsin/halorhodopsin. rneedle@moose.med.wayne.edu

ROSEN, Barry P., Professor and Chairman. Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1969; postdoctoral, Cornell Univ. 1969-71. Molecular mechanisms of metal transport and resistance. brosen@med.wayne.edu, Rosen Lab

STEMMLER, Timothy, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996; postdoctoral, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2000. Structural and biochemical investigation of proteins involved in mitochondrial metal homeostasis and antibiotic resistance. tstemmle@med.wayne.edu

VINOGRADOV, Serge N., Professor. Ph.D., Illinois Inst. Technology, 1960; postdoctoral, Univ. Alberta (1959-62); Yale Univ., 1962-66. Quarternary structure of invertebrate extracellular hemoglobins, models of inter- and intra-molecular interactions in biological macromolecules. svinogra@med.wayne.edu

WANG, Jianjun, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Nanjing University, 1988; postdoctoral, Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence and Department of Biochemistry, Univ. Alberta. Structure of lipoproteins, nmr, heart disease, Alzheimer's syndrome. jjwang@med.wayne.edu

YANG, Zhe, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999; postdoctoral, University of California, San Diego, 1999-2002; Emory University, 2002-2006. Structural and functional analysis by X-ray crystallogaphy of interactions between HIV proteins and histone modification complexes. Biochemistry and structural biology of epigenetcis and chromatin modification pathways in cancers; Virtual screening/structure-based anticancer and antibacterial drug. zyang@med.wayne.edu
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