Faculty Contact Information
Cheryl
Bailey
Assistant Professor
Office: N106 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-3530
E-mail: cbailey7@unl.edu
Protein regulation systems; SUMOylation; carbon concentrating mechanisms
Joseph
Barycki
Assistant Professor
Office: N222 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9307
E-mail: jbarycki2@unl.edu
Crystallographic and biochemical characterizations of enzymes involved
in redox homeostasis.
Gilles
Basset
Assistant Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture / Biochemistry
Office: N146 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-4742
E-mail: gbasset2@unl.edu
Plant nutrigenomics; plant secondary metabolism; protein and metabolic
engineering.
Donald Becker
Associate Professor
Office: N258 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9652
E-mail: dbecker3@unl.edu
Redox enzymology and gene regulation, Proline metabolism, Flavin
Biochemistry.
Raymond
Chollet
W.W. Marshall Family University Professor and Interim Head
Office; N246/N202 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2936/3212
E-mail: rchollet1@unl.edu
Regulatory protein phosphorylation in plants; plant protein kinases,
metabolic plant enzymes; photosynthesis; plant biochemistry.
Vadim
Gladyshev
Charles Bessey Professor
Office: N151 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-4948
E-mail: vgladyshev1@unl.edu
Biochemistry and genetics of selenocysteine-containing proteins;
mechanism of cancer prevention by selenium; bioinformatics; redox
regulation of cellular processes.
Mark
Griep
Affiliated Faculty - Associate Professor in Chemistry
Office: 733 Hamilton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3429
E-mail: mgriep1@.unl.edu
Protein-DNA complexes and protein structure-function; fluorescence.
Jaekwon
Lee
Assistant Professor
Office: N210 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2658
E-mail: jlee7@unlnotes.unl.edu
Mechanism of metal-ion metabolism; copper transporters; oxidative
stress response.
Marjorie
Lou
Willa Cather Professor
Office: 134 Vetinary Science Building, Phone: 402-472-0307
E-mail: mlou1@unl.edu
Biochemical mechanisms of ocular degenerative diseases and aging;
redox regulation and metabolism in the eye lens and other tissues.
S.
Madhavan
Professor
Office: N249 Beadle Center, Phone:402-472-9802
E-mail: msoundar@unlnotes.unl.edu
John
Markwell
Professor
Office: N251 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2924
E-mail: markwell@unl.edu
Photosynthetic efficiency, higher plant photosynthetic pigments;
the use of surfactants as probes of membrane structure; formate
dehydrogenase; soybean proteins that cause human allergies.
Jess
Miner
Affiliated Faculty - Associate Professor in Animal Science
Office: C220k, Animal Science Building, Phone: 402-472-0518
E-mail: jminer1@unl.edu
Nutritional biochemistry, Research interests in regulation of adipogenesis
and feed intake.
Kenneth
Nickerson
Affiliated Faculty - Professor in Biological Sciences
Office: E141 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2253
E-mail: knickerson1@unl.edu
Fungal dimorphism; qourum sensing in fungi; membrane fluidity; bacterial
resistance to detergents and solvents; microbial insecticides; PQQ;
polyamines, the ClpP protease, broad host range bacteriophage.
Lawrence
Parkhurst
Affiliated Faculty - Hewett University Professor of Chemistry
Office: 515A Hamilton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3501
E-mail: lparkhurst1@unl.edu
Biophysical chemistry; rapid reactions of haemoproteins and ribosomes.
Gautam
Sarath
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Adjunct Professor
Office: 332 Keim Hall, Phone:402-472-4204
E-mail: gsarath1@unl.edu
Plant biochemistry; genetic engineering; protein and peptide purification
characterization.
Melanie
Simpson
Assistant Professor
Office: N241 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9309
E-mail: msimpson2@unl.edu
Prostate cancer; early regulation of tumor formation; extracellular
control of gene expression.
Greg
Somerville
Affiliated Faculty - Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical
Sciences
Office: 202 VBS, Phone: 402-472-6063
E-mail: gsomerville3@unl.edu
Robert
Spreitzer
Charles Bessey Professor
Office: N217 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-5446
E-mail: rspreitzer1@unl.edu
Structure-function relationships of Rubisco, Photosynthesis, Chloroplast
molecular genetics.
Paul
Staswick
Affiliated Faculty - Professor in Agronomy
Office: 351 Keim Hall. Phone: 402-472-5624
E-mail: pstaswick1@unl.edu
Plant molecular biology.
John
Stezowski
Affiliated Faculty - Professor in Chemistry
Office: 722 Hamilton Hall, Phone: 402-472-8570
E-mail: jstezowski1@unl.edu
Structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids by X-ray crystallography
and molecular modeling.
Julie
M Stone
Assistant Professor
Office: N230 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-4902
E-mail: jstone2@unl.edu
Plant molecular biology; program cell death; signal transduction;
reactive oxygen species (redox); biotic and abiotic stress responses;
plant development.
Donald
Weeks
Professor
Office: N158 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-7917
E-mail: dweeks1@unl.edu
Plant molecular biology; genetic engineering of plants; gene regulation
and signal transduction.
Mark
Wilson
Assistant Professor
Office: N164 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-3626
E-mail: mwilson13@unl.edu
Structural biology of proteins relevant to neurodegeneration; structural
and functional studies of the DJ-1 superfamily; atomic and ultra-high
resolution X-ray crystallography.
Charles
Wood
Lewis Lehr/3M University Professor
Office: E318 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-4559
E-mail: cwood1@unl.edu
Molecular virology, HIV and human herpus virus gene regulation.
Janos
Zempleni
Affiliated Faculty - Assistant Professor in Nutrition adn Health
Sciences
Office: 316 Ruth Leverton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3270
E-mail: jzempleni2@unl.edu
Nutritional science; effects of vitamins on cellular growth; proliferation
and differentiation; vitamin-dependent modifications of nucleic-acid
binding compounds; interleukin-2 metabolism.
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