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Francisco Barrera

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Francisco Barrera is an expert in the plasma membrane barrier that delineates communication between cells and their environment.

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Brad Binder

Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Brad Binder is an expert in how plants and other organisms detect and respond to ethylene, a gas involved in biological processes such as fruit ripening, flower development and stress responses.

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Keerthi Krishnan

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Keerthi Krishnan is an expert in how the brain changes and adapts at the molecular and cellular levels during development and adulthood, both in healthy conditions and in diseases.

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Rachel Patton McCord

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Rachel McCord is an expert in the human genome — the DNA instructions that make up a human cell.

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Jeremy Smith

Professor of Molecular Biophysics

Jeremy Smith is an expert in computational sciences and neutron sciences.

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Albrecht Von Arnim

Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Albrecht von Arnim is an expert in gene expression, the process by which organisms turn genetic information into molecules and cells.

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Jianbin Wang

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Jianbin Wang is an expert in DNA elimination, a process through which certain DNA sequences are removed from an organism’s genome during growth or development. His research explores why DNA elimination happens, its role in evolution, and how cells break down and repair DNA during the process.