CBI Training Program Faculty

Executive Committee

Michael Burkart, PI Chemistry & Biochemistry

Alexis Komor, PI Chemistry & Biochemistry

Faculty Mentors

Itay Budin , PI (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.

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

Seth Cohen, PI (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

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

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

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

Thomas Hermann, PI (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Alexis Komor (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
DNA damage and repair; Genome editing.

Dionicio Siegel

Julia Stauber (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

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

Emmanuel Theodorakis,

Navtej Toor (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Structural biology of RNA splicing.

Yitzhak Tor (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Chemical biology of highly charged biopolymers, including nucleic acids and proteogylcans and their interactions with small molecules.

Jerry Yang (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Jin Zhang (School of Pharmacy)
Cells sense changing environments and orchestrate specific responses to carry out life processes.