BMB Faculty

Faculty

Timothy Durrett

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

174 Chalmers
tdurrett@ksu.edu

Biochemistry of triacylglycerol biosynthesis; structure and function of membrane bound acyltransferases; genetically modifying the physical properties of seed oils for industrial and biofuel applications.

Brandon Garcia

Associate Professor

64 Chalmers
garciab@ksu.edu

Lyme disease pathogenesis; mechanisms of bacterial immune evasion; protein structure-function; drug discovery.

Brian Geisbrecht

University Distinguished Professor and Interim Department Head

176 Chalmers
geisbrechtb@ksu.edu

Innate immunity; molecular basis of infectious diseases and host-pathogen interactions; structural biology and molecular recognition.

Erika Geisbrecht

Professor

173 Chalmers
geisbrechte@ksu.edu

Formation and maintenance of muscle and heart tissue; biochemistry and molecular genetics of Drosophila; cell signaling in development.

Shijiao Huang

Assistant Professor

62 Chalmers
shijiaoh@ksu.edu

My scientific goal is to understand the mechanisms of aging and to develop clinically relevant drugs to delay aging and enhance human health and longevity.

Ping Li

University Outstanding Scholar, Associate Professor, and Director of Protein and Biopolymer Analysis Core Lab (PBACL)

61 Chalmers
pli@ksu.edu

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis, regulation, and utilization; bacterial enzymes involved in lignin degradation; protein methyltransferases in epigenetics.

Om Prakash

Professor, Director of NMR Facility, and Graduate Admissions Chair

39 Chalmers
omp@ksu.edu

Structural characterization and molecular recognition using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Computer Aided Molecular Design (CAMD).

Mark Boatwright

Instructor

34 Chalmers
mdb012@ksu.edu

Courses: BIOCH 265, BIOCH 265 online, BIOCH 522

David Meekins

Instructor

Remote
dmeekins@ksu.edu

Courses: BIOCH 110 online, BIOCH 521 online, BIOCH 756
Areas of specialty: Protein structure and function studies; high-consequence zoonotic viruses; biochemistry science communication.

Adjunct and Ancillary Faculty

Jeremy Schmit

Professor, Department of Physics

schmit@ksu.edu

Theoretical soft sondensed matter and biological physics: biomolecule phase separation; amyloid fibril formation; drug formulations; self-assembly.

Ruth Welti

University Distinguished Professor, Division of Biology

welti@ksu.edu

Structure and function of cell membranes; mass-spectrometry-based lipid analysis.

Emeritus Faculty

Lawrence Davis

Emeritus professor

ldavis@ksu.edu

Nitrogen fixation mutants, structure-function relationships, associating macromolecules; environmental metabolic processes, bioremediation; science education.

Michael Kanost

Emeritus University Distinguished Professor

kanost@ksu.edu

Insect hemolymph proteins: biochemistry and molecular biology; structure and function of serine proteinases, proteinase inhibitors, and antimicrobial response proteins from insect hemolymph.

Phillip E. Klebba

Emeritus University Distinguished Professor

peklebba@ksu.edu

Iron acquisition by active transport through the cell envelopes of bacteria; immunological approaches to bacterial pathogenesis; biophysical analyses of bacterial membrane transport in living cells.

Karl Kramer

Emeritus Adjunct Professor