CBI Training Program Faculty

Executive Committee

Michael Burkart, PI (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Alexis Komor, PI (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Faculty Mentors

Adrian Jinich, School of Pharmacy
Protein-small molecule interactions; computational and experimental chemical biology. 

F. Akif Tezcan, Chemistry & Biochemistry
New inorganic supramolecular approaches to control the in vitro and in vivo assembly of functional protein complexes.

Alexis Komor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Genome editing, DNA repair, protein engineering, and directed evolution. 

Colleen McHugh, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Nucleic acid and protein chemistry. 

Dionicio Siegel, School of Pharmacy
Complex molecule synthesis. 

Fleur Ferguson, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Applies organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, mass spectrometry and cell biology towards the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies in oncology and neurodegenerative disorders.

Galia Debelouchina, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chemical and spectroscopic approaches for structural biology of complex biological systems.

Haim Weizman, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chemical education, Bioorganic chemistry. 

Itay Budin, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Use synthetic and systems biology approaches to understand and engineer the molecular processes that occur on the surfaces of cells and their organelles.

Jerry Yang, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Chemical Biology/Chemical Neuroscience. 

Jin Zhang, Pharmacology
Cells sense changing environments and orchestrate specific responses to carry out life processes.

Julia Stauber, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Bioinorganic, molecular recognition. 

Kamil Godula, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Nanotechnologies for analysis of glycan function during development. Glycomaterials for stem cell-based tissue regeneration.

Michael Burkart, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Secondary metabolite biosynthesis and production leading to new approaches for drug discovery, renewable energy and biomaterials.

Navtej Toor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
RNA structural biology. 

Neal Devaraj, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Bioorthogonal reactions and their use in molecular imaging and synthetic biology.

Seth Cohen, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry, chemical biology, and medicinal chemistry.