Faculty Contact Information

Cheryl Bailey
Assistant Professor
Office:  N106 Beadle Center, Phone:  402-472-3530
E-mail:  cbailey7@unl.edu
Research Area: Protein regulation systems; SUMOylation; carbon concentrating mechanisms

Joseph Barycki
Associate Professor
Office: N222 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9307
E-mail: jbarycki2@unl.edu
Recent Publications
Research Area: 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
Research Area: Plant nutrigenomics; plant secondary metabolism; protein and metabolic engineering

Donald Becker
Professor
Office: N258 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9652
E-mail: dbecker3@unl.edu
Research: Redox enzymology and gene regulation, Proline metabolism, Flavin Biochemistry

Paul N. Black
Department Chair/Professor
Office: N202 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-3212
E-mail: pblack2@unl.edu
Research Area: Fatty acid transport proteins, fatty acid trafficking, metabolic transformation

Edgar Cahoon
Associate Professor
Office: E318 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-5611
E-mail: ecahoon2@unl.edu
Research Area: Functional genomics of plant lipid and oil metabolism, sphingolipid metabolism and function, nutritional biofortification of crop plants

Concetta DiRusso
Professor in Nutrition and Health Sciences / Biochemistry
Office: N241 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-6504
E-mail: cdirusso2@unl.edu
Research Area: Nutrient fatty acids, fatty acid-dependent regulation, fatty acids in health and disease

Dmitri Fomenko
Assistant Professor
Office: N138 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9062
E-mail: dfomenko@genomics.unl.edu
Research: Redox biology, bioinformatics, transcription regulation and molecular diagnostic systems

Jaekwon Lee
Associate Professor
Office: N210 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2658
E-mail: jlee7@unlnotes.unl.edu
Recent Publications
Research Area: Mechanism of metal-ion metabolism; copper transporters; oxidative stress response

Madhavan Soundararajan
Professor of Practice
Office: N249 Beadle Center, Phone:402-472-9802
E-mail: msoundar@unlnotes.unl.edu
Research Area: Biochemical and environmental regulation of carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation in plants, stomatal biochemistry

John Markwell
Professor
Office: N251 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-2924
E-mail: markwell@unl.edu
Recent Publications
Research Area: Photosynthetic efficiency, higher plant photosynthetic pigments; the use of surfactants as probes of membrane structure; formate dehydrogenase; soybean proteins that cause human allergies

Melanie Simpson
Associate Professor
Office: N241 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-9309
E-mail: msimpson2@unl.edu
Recent Publications
Research Area: Prostate cancer; early regulation of tumor formation; extracellular control of gene expression

Robert Spreitzer
Charles Bessey Professor
Office: N217 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-5446
E-mail: rspreitzer1@unl.edu
Recent Publications
Research Area: Structure-function relationships of Rubisco, Photosynthesis, Chloroplast molecular genetics

Julie M Stone
Associate Professor
Office: N230 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-4902
E-mail: jstone2@unl.edu
Research Area: Plant molecular biology; program cell death; signal transduction; reactive oxygen species (redox); biotic and abiotic stress responses; plant development

Donald Weeks
Maxcy Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Office: N158 Beadle Center, Phone: 402-472-7917
E-mail: dweeks1@unl.edu
Research Area: 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
Research Area: 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
Professor, School of Biological Sciences/Biochemistry
Office: 102C MOLR, Phone: 402-472-4550
FAX: 402-472-3323
E-mail: cwood1@unl.edu
Research Area: Molecular virology, HIV and human herpus virus gene regulation.

 

AFFILIATED FACULTY - CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY (CBC)

Mark Griep
Affiliated Faculty - Associate Professor in Chemistry
Office: 614A Hamilton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3429
E-mail: mgriep1@.unl.edu
Research Area: Protein-DNA complexes and protein structure-function; fluorescence

Marjorie Lou
Affiliated Faculty - Willa Cather Professor, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
Office: 134 Veterinary Science Building, Phone: 402-472-0307
E-mail: mlou1@unl.edu
Research Area: Biochemical mechanisms of ocular degenerative diseases and aging; redox regulation and metabolism in the eye lens and other tissues

Jess Miner
Affiliated Faculty - Associate Professor in Animal Science
Office: C220k, Animal Science Building, Phone: 402-472-0518
E-mail: jminer1@unl.edu
Research Area: 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
Research Area: 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: 737 Hamilton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3316
E-mail: lparkhurst1@unl.edu
Research Area: Biophysical chemistry; rapid reactions of haemoproteins and ribosomes

Greg Somerville
Affiliated Faculty - Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Office: 202 VBS, Phone: 402-472-6063
E-mail: gsomerville3@unl.edu
Research Area: Genomics, proteomics, in vivo mutagenesis screens, conditional lethal screens, Staphylococcus aureus, S. aureus aconitase

Paul Staswick
Affiliated Faculty - Professor in Agronomy
Office: 351 Keim Hall. Phone: 402-472-5624
E-mail: pstaswick1@unl.edu
Research Area: Plant molecular biology.

Janos Zempleni
Affiliated Faculty - Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Health Sciences
Office: 316 Ruth Leverton Hall, Phone: 402-472-3270
E-mail: jzempleni2@unl.edu
Research Area: Nutritional science; effects of vitamins on cellular growth; proliferation and differentiation; vitamin-dependent modifications of nucleic-acid binding compounds; interleukin-2 metabolism

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Vadim Gladyshev, Adjunct Professor
Department of Medicine - Division of Genetics
Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School
E-mail: vgladyshev@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Research Area: Biochemistry and genetics of selenocysteine-containing proteins; mechanism of cancer prevention by selenium; bioinformatics; redox regulation of cellular processes

Gautam Sarath, Adjunct Professor
USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Office: 332 Keim Hall, Phone:402-472-4204
E-mail: Gautam.Sarath@ars.usda.gov
Research Area: Plant biochemistry; genetic engineering; protein and peptide purification characterization