Structural Biology

ASU students are revolutionizing structural biology using femtosecond nanocrystallography, characterizing the structural properties of proteins in spider silk using high field NMR, using X-Ray crystallography to characterize critical protein/RNA and protein/carbohydrate complexes responsible for disease, connecting protein structure to biological function, and combining NMR, computation and biophysics to describe the dynamical structure of membrane-bound proteins in action.

Po-Lin Chiu

Electron microscopy, cryo-EM, electron crystallography, membrane protein, structural biology, signal processing, image processing

Glen DSouza

Microbiomes, Microscale Microbial Ecology, Carbon Sequestration, Host-Microbiome Interactions

Petra Fromme

Structural biochemistry and biophysics, membrane proteins, X-Ray crystallography, photosynthesis, molecular biology

Di Liu

DNA/RNA nanotechnology; DNA topology; RNA structures; RNA therapeutics

Alberto Rascón

Aedes aegypti mosquito; Proteases; Protein Structure and Function; Viral Pathogens

Wade Van Horn

Membrane proteins, Solution NMR, Structural biology, Biophysical Chemistry, Enzymology, Electrophysiology, Computational structural biology, Ion channels, Membrane enzymes

Xu Wang

Biochemistry, NMR, protein, carbohydrate, glycan, glycosaminoglycan, protein structure, protein-carbohydrate interactions

Jeffery Yarger

Solid-state NMR and MRI, soft matter research, disordered materials, biopolymers, battery and fuel cell materials, polyamorphism, nano-materials, high-pressure chemistry, quantum computation, laser scattering spectroscopy, neutron, electron and xray diffraction of amorphous materials