University of Georgia
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
Environmental stress biology, using biochemical, biophysical, and ‘omics approaches to define
the roles of toxic metal exposure in chronic and infectious diseases.
Molecular cell biology and biochemistry of proteases associated with isoprenylated protein
maturation and amyloidogenic peptide degradation; cancer; Alzheimer’s disease.
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.
Metabolism and drug development against protozoan parasites.
Calcium signaling and storage in Toxoplasma gondii.
Biochemistry, molecular, and structural biology of mammalian glycoprotein biosynthesis and catabolism.
X-ray crystallography of macromolecules, prokaryotic transcriptional regulators.
Understanding intracellular and intercellular heme transport.
