Faculty Research Interests in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

• High-throughoutput global proteomic analysis of yeast

• Enzymology of DNA mismatch repair and DNA replication in E. coli and S. cerevisiae

• Molecular genetics of gene silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Chromosome structure and function

• Gene regulation in embryo genesis; molecular mechanisms of cellular defenses against oxidative stresses.

• Regulation and Evolution of the Olfactory System.

• Molecular Genetic Analysis of DNA Replication and DNA Repair Proteins in Yeast
• Molecular analysis of the yeast homolog of the EBNA1-binding protein EBP2.

• Protein and nucleic acid structure
• Structure-function relationships in protein-nucleic acid and protein-protein interactions using UV resonance Raman spectroscopy

• Analysis of protein translocation pathways in bacteria: its genetics, regulation and biochemistry