Emeritus - Department of Biological Sciences

JOSEPH ALTMAN

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/19/2016

JOHN ANDERSON

andersjn@purdue.edu

(Eukaryotic gene expression) Control of eukaryotic gene expression and replication; DNA structure; virus evolution.

ARTHUR ARONSON

aronson@purdue.edu

Microbiology, Molecular Biology

TIMOTHY BAKER

tsb1@purdue.edu

Structural Biology - coordinated application of high resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction techniques to study virus structure and to answer questions about how viruses infect a wide range of hosts including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria.

ANNA BERKOVITZ

Memoriam Emeritus - 11/27/2018

JEFFREY BOLIN

jtb@purdue.edu

(Structural molecular biology; biochemistry) Protein structure and function; X-ray crystallography; metalloenzymes; biodegradation of PCBs and related compounds.

C DAVID BRIDGES

bridgesc@purdue.edu

(Biochemistry; physiology) Biochemistry and physiology of the visual process; evolution of vision; transport and utilization of vitamin A in the body; genes for retinoid-binding proteins, hereditary retinal degenerations.

J. ALFRED CHISCON

chisconj@purdue.edu

Biology Teaching - The Social Impact of the Biological Sciences

MARTHA CHISCON

mchiscon@purdue.edu

Immunobiology, Developmental Biology - instrumental in organizing the Women in Science program, and designed and taught Women and the Science Disciplines, the first course of its kind in the nation to be taught at a college of science

WILLIAM CRAMER

waclab@purdue.edu

Structure/function of membrane proteins involved in charge translocation and protein import: photosynthetic electron transport and energy transduction; cytochrome complexes; colicins: ion channels, cellular import, receptor function; antibiotic-resistant cytotoxin; structure-function/membrane interactions of Parkinson protein, -synuclein.

LASZLO CSONKA

csonka@purdue.edu

(Microbiology) Adaptation to osmotic stress, regulation of thermotolerance, mechanism of transcriptional regulation of Mg ²⁺ genes in Salmonella enterica .

RICHARD DILLEY

dilleyr@purdue.edu

Photosynthesis, Membrane Biochemistry, Plant Physiology – photosynthesis research

DONNA FEKETE

dfekete@purdue.edu

(Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) Development of the inner ear; Zika virus infection of the brain and inner ear

MICHAEL FORMAN

forman@purdue.edu

Structural, Developmental Biology - photosynthesis research

PETER HOLLENBECK

phollenb@purdue.edu

(Neurobiology) Intracellular organelle transport in neurons.

RICHARD HOWARD

rhoward@purdue.edu

Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior

ROBERT HURST

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/30/2019

LAURIE ITEN

liten@purdue.edu

(Developmental biology) Animal development and regeneration.

STEPHEN KONIECZNY

sfk@purdue.edu

(Eukaryotic molecular biology) Gene expression during mammalian development; cancer model systems.

ALLAN KONOPKA

akonopka@purdue.edu

Microbiology, Microbial Ecology - physiology of microorganisms in either natural or man-made ecosystems

MARK LEVINTHAL

Memoriam Emeritus - 10/23/2020

MORRIS LEVY

Evolution and Population Biology

DENNIS MINCHELLA

dennism@purdue.edu

(Population biology; genetics) Host-parasite coevolution; influence of parasitism on host life-history patterns; molecular ecology and genetics; genetic diversity of parasite populations

SANFORD OSTROY

Memoriam Emeritus - 4/4/2017

WILLIAM PAK

Molecular Neurogenic

NANCY PELAEZ

npelaez@purdue.edu

(Physiology) Vascular smooth muscle physiology and signal transduction, physiology and evolution, physiology education.

SAMUEL POSTLETHWAIT

Memoriam Emeritus - 1/15/2019

KERRY RABENOLD

rabenold@purdue.edu

Conservation, Behavioral and Community Ecology - ecological research

WILLIAM RAY

KENNETH ROBINSON

robinsok@purdue.edu

Developmental Physiology

MICHAEL ROSSMANN

Memoriam Emeritus - 5/14/2019

(Molecular biology; biophysics) Structure of picornaviruses (rhinoviruses, Mengo virus, coxsackievirus, poliovirus), parvoviruses, alphaviruses and bacteriophages, fX174, f29, T4; molecular evolution.

LOUIS SHERMAN

lsherman@purdue.edu

(microbiology) Photosynthetic membranes - structure, function, and assembly in cyanobacteria; functional genomics and impact of environmental factors on photosynthesis; analysis of global regulation with microarrays; regulation of photosynthesis and N ₂ -fixation in unicellular cyanobacteria.