Chemistry of Life Processes & Biological Chemistry

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The Chemistry of Life Processes concentration unifies the disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering and computational science. Research in this area focuses on the development of fundamental molecular health sciences required to understand life processes, from the level of the single molecule to the human being. The research and training efforts of faculty in this concentration are coordinated through the CLP Institute. Research opportunities in this concentration integrate many disciplines and involve collaborative efforts between preceptors from various fields.

Chemistry of Life Processes Institute

Faculty List

	Vadim Backman, PhD Email:v-backman@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3536 Fax: (847) 491-4928 Room: Tech E278 Research Interests: Early cancer screening using biophotonics technologies, early physiological and molecular events in carcinogenesis, mechanisms of microvascular blood supply increase in early carcinogenesis, alteration of cell nanoarchitecture in carcinogenesis.
	Linda J. Broadbelt, PhD Email:broadbelt@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5351 Fax: (847) 491-3728 Room: Tech E136 Research Interests: Multiscale modeling, complex kinetics modeling, environmental catalysis, novel biochemical pathways, and polymerization/depolymerization kinetics
	Brian Hoffman, PhD Email: bmh@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3104 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech NG91 Research Interests: Long-range inter-protein electron transfer
	Michael C. Jewett, PhD Email: mcjewett@genetics.med.harvard.edu Phone: TBA Fax: TBA Room:TBA Research Interests: Engineering cell-free systems for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology
	Andreas Matouschek, PhD Email: matouschek@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-3570 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 4105 Research Interests: Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
	Kelly E. Mayo, PhD Email: k-mayo@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-8854 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Hogan 4-112 Research Interests: Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-2481 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech L110 Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	Chad Mirkin Email: chadnano@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-7302 Fax: (847) 467-5123 Room: Nano 3012 Research Interests: Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-3340 Fax: (847) 491-3340 Room: Cook 3129 Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD Email: t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5060 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Pancoe 1121 Research Interests: Metalloregulatory proteins
	Amy C. Rosenzweig, PhD Email: amyr@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-5301 Fax: (847) 467-6489 Room: Cook 4137 Research Interests:Structural biology and bioinorganic chemistry, metal uptake, transport and storage, oxygen activation by metalloenzymes, biological methane oxidation, membrane protein crystallography
	Karl A. Scheidt, PhD Email: scheidt@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-6659 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech K352 Research Interests:The discovery of new organic reactions and bioorganic chemistry
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5653 Fax: (847) 491-7713 Room: Tech M292 Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD Email: erik@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 467-6880 Fax: (847) 491-4461 Room: Cook 3137 Research Interests: Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
	Olke Uhlenbeck, PhD Email: o-uhlenbeck@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-5139 Fax: (847) 491-5444 Room: Cook 4143 Research Interests: RNA biochemistry
	Yun Wang, PhD Email: yun-wang@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7232 Fax: (847) 491-4011 Room: Tech A330 Research Interests: Medical and environmental microbiology, aquatic geochemistry
	Eric Weiss, PhD Email: elweiss@northwestern.edu Phone: (847) 491-7034 Fax: (847) 467-1380 Room: Pancoe 3413 Research Interests: Spatially and temporally coordinated cell growth and cell division
	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Email: tkw@northwestern.edu Phone: (312) 503-2503 Fax: (312) 503-0189 Room: Lurie 10-119 Research Interests: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth