University of Colorado Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Joan Betz, Ph.D.
Biology at Regis College
Protein-DNA interactions regulating transcription

Thomas Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at CU Boulder
Mechanisms of pre-mRNA processing: splicing and 3' end formation; logic of gene organization on C. elegans chromosomes: eukaryotic operons

Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D.
Biochemistry at CU Boulder
Ribozyme Structure and Telomere Maintenance

Gina Clayton, PhD 
Biochemistry

Pharmacology
Structural biology of gene regulatory mechanisms

David Engelke, Ph.D.​
Chemistry
Biosynthesis and functions of small RNAs in eukaryotic nuclei.​

Heide L. Ford, Ph.D.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
The SIX family of homeobox genes and their role in development, cell cycle control, and tumorigenesis.

Jacob Friedman, Ph.D.
Pediatrics - Human Nutrition
Our lab is interested in how transcription factors regulate genes of energy balance and glucose homeostasis. Our focus is on insulin receptor signaling, gene regulation, and fetal origins of adult diabetes and obesity.

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann, M.D.
Medicine - Endocrinology
The role of POU homeodomain and Ets family transcription factors in tissue-specific gene regulation.

James Hagman, Ph.D.
Immunology
Transcriptional regulation and differentiation of B lymphocytes

Cellular responses to DNA damage and other types of environmental stress by genetic, biochemical, and functional genomic approaches.

Alexander Karpeisky, Ph.D. 

MBC Pharma, Inc.
Biopharmaceutical

Karolin Luger, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
Structure and function of eukaryotic chromatin

Philippa Marrack, Ph.D.
Immunology
The production, survival and properties of T cells

Anne-Laure Perraud, Ph.D.
Immunology
Studying ion channel function in the immune context

Inge Wefes, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Graduate School

Tamim H. Shaikh, Ph.D
Pediatrics - Human Medical Genetics
Copy Number Variation in Human Disease; Neurodevelopmental Genes and Genetics Pathways; Genome Instabilty and Mechanisms of Rearrangement

Matt Taylor, M.D., Ph.D.
School of Medicine

Dennis Voelker, Ph.D.
National Jewish Center - Cell Biology
Intracellular phospholipid trafficking among organelles and the structure and function of the pulmonary surfactant proteins A and D

Shawn Zinnen, Ph.D.
MBC Pharma, Inc.
Biopharmaceutical