UMB School of Medicine

UMB School of Medicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Research and Teaching Faculty


  • Gerard J. Barcak, Regulation of prokaryotic gene expression and genetic transformation of
                              Haemophilus influenzae


  • Lindsay W. Black, Bacteriophage morphogenesis and DNA packaging; bacteriophage molecular
                              biology.


  • Enrico Bucci, Blood Substitutes; fluorescence spectroscopy of hemoproteins; allosteric transitions.

  • France Carrier, Cellular Response to Genotoxic (DNA damage) Stress in human cells.

  • Alex Drohat, Structure and mechanism of DNA repair enzymes; NMR spectroscopy; enzymology

  • Iain Farrance,  Regulation of transcription in muscle; cardiac hypertrophy; skeletal muscle
                          differentiation; transcriptional coregulators.


  • Donald L. Gill, Signal transduction; membrane-receptor coupling processes; calcium signaling
                         mechansims.


  • Giuseppe Inesi, Molecular mechanism of cation transport; energy transduction in enzymes.

  • Michael G. Klein,  Regulation of calcium signaling in heart and skeletal muscle

  • Joseph R. Lakowicz, Fluorescence spectroscopy; biophysical chemistry; protein structure and
                                 dynamics; instrument development; probe chemistry


  • A-Lien Lu-Chang, DNA mismatch repair; genome stability and cancer; control of telomere length.

  • Terry B. Rogers, Hormonal regulation of cardiac cell contractility; biochemical mechanisms of
                             neurotoxins.


  • Martin F. Schneider, Intracellular calcium signaling in muscle and other cells; electrical properties and
                                 voltage sensors of muscle and nerve membranes.


  • Adil Shamoo, Research ethics on human subjects and responsible conduct of research

  • Richard B. Thompson, Fiber-optic and fluorescence sensing of analytes of clinical and biochemical
                                     interest.


  • Eric Toth,,  Structural studies of proteins involved in mRNA degradation and the maintenance

  • David J. Weber, Enzymology, protein structure, and NMR. Biochemistry.

  • Gerald Wilson, Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

  • Kai Xu, Molecular mechanism and regulation of enzyme mediated biological processes