University of Georgia
X-ray structural biology, the mitochondrial inner membrane space transport system,
structure based vaccine and therapeutic design, improved/automated methods for
synchrotron SAD data collection and structure determination.
Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to the characterization of biologically important systems.
Solving biological/biomedical problems with mass spectrometry.
Biochemistry, molecular, and structural biology of mammalian glycoprotein biosynthesis and catabolism.
Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin.
Anti-cancer effects of pectin.
Understanding intracellular and intercellular heme transport.
The mechanisms of metalloproteins involved in radical generation, oxidative stress protection,
as well as heme synthesis, sensing, aquisition and transport.
Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. Evolution and classification of glycoenzymes.
Retrovirus-like transposons in budding yeast, control of transposition, restriction factors.
Structures and functions of the noncellulosic polysaccharides of plant primary cell walls.
