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Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Bioactives and Nutraceuticals

Green Chemistry

Material Sciences and Nanotechnology

Molecular Pathology

Molecular Toxicology

Molecular Recognition

Muscle Contraction

Molecular Diagnostics

Section Board for 'Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Section Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Andrei Alexandrescu
Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, BSP 209, 91 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3125, Storrs, CT 06269-3125, USA
Tel. +1 860 486 4414; Fax: +1 860 486 4331
Website: http://mcb.uconn.edu/fac.php?name=alexandrescuat
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Interests: protein folding; amyloids; alzheimer's disease; parkinson's disease; type II diabetes; structural biology; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; structural bioinformatics; protein misfolding; neuromuscular junction proteins; OB-fold proteins; protein dynamics; biophysics
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Aparicio
Structural Biology Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, CP6154, CEP13084-862, Brazil
Tel. +55 19 3521 1105; Fax: +55 19 3521 3023
Website: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br/departamentos/?p=127&c=129&id=73
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Interests: structural biology; protein crystallography; SAXS
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Dr. Nicole M. Bergmann
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University, 3507 Lindell, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Tel. +1 314 977 8350
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Interests: molecular recognition; molecular imprinting; drug delivery systems

Prof. Dr. Julian Borejdo
Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
Tel. +1 817 735 2106
Website: http://www.hsc.unt.edu/mbi/biography.cfm?id=167
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Interests: muscles; interactions between actin and myosin; biochemical approach to determine the proximity of actin to myosin; physico-chemical approach to measure the orientation of myosin in vivo; molecular biology approach (cloning mutants of myosin) to establish the role of various amino acid residues in muscle functions

Prof. Dr. Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Institute of Biochemistry, Deptartment of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Greifswald University, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)3834 86 4367; Fax: +49 (0)3834 86 80066
Website: http://www.chemie.uni-greifswald.de/~biotech/
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Interests: biocatalysis; protein engineering; high-throughput screening; enantioselective synthesis

Dr. Gregor Drummen
Guest Editor for MDPI, Switzerland
Tel. +49 211 40 51 810; Fax: +49 211 47 45 476
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Interests: quantum dots; bionanotechnology; two-photon fluorescence imaging; cellular imaging; fluorescence microscopy; nucleic acids; DNA damage; cancer; cell signaling; radiation biology; oxidative stress; lipids and biomembranes; lipid peroxidation
Contribution: Section: Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
Special Issue: Fluorophores - The Fluorescent Toolbox in Biological and Biomedical Research

Dr. Mylène Durand-Tardif
Genetics and Plant Breeding Laboratory, Jean-Pierre Bourgin Institute, INRA Centre of Versailles-Grignon, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France
Tel. +33 (0)1 30 83 31 62
Website: http://www-ijpb.versailles.inra.fr/en/sgap/equipes/stress/index.htm
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Interests: arabidopsis thaliana; phenotype; drought; osmotic; abiotic stress; natural variability; induced variability
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst *
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, CHN, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 1 632 4368; Fax: +41 1 632 1257
Website: http://www.chem.ethz.ch/D-CHEM-Prof/ernst/ernst.html
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Interests: NMR; physical chemistry
* Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Martin Gruebele
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, A220 Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Tel. +1 217 333 1624; Fax: +1 217 244 3186
Website: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/faculty/Martin_Gruebele.html
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Interests: protein folding; RNA folding; downhill folding; protein-protein interactions; biomolecular simulation; temperature jump; small angle X-ray scattering

Prof. Dr. Michael Hall
Biocenter, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/hall/index.html
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Interests: signal transduction and control of cell growth

Dr. Walter Herzog
Human Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Tel. +1 403 220 8525; Fax: +1 403 284 3553
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Interests: muscle contraction mechanisms; titin; myosin; actin; optical trapping; myofibrils; single fibres; isolated sarcomeres

Prof. Dr. Zhen Huang
Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Room 540 General Classroom Building, 38 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3083, USA
Tel. (404) 413-5535 (Office); (404) 413-5534 (Lab); Fax: (404) 413-5505
Website: http://chemistry.gsu.edu/faculty/Huang/
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Interests: Nucleic acid synthesis, selenium derivatization of DNA and RNA, non-coding RNA, ribozyme, nucleic acid X-ray crystallography, RNA microchip, disease and pathogen rapid detection, cancer prevension and genetic mechamisms, new drug discovery

Prof. Dr. Lajos Kovacs
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Universtiy of Szeged, Dom ter 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
Tel. +36 62 54 51 45; Fax: +36 62 42 59 71
Website: http://www.mdche.u-szeged.hu/~kovacs/nal.html
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Interests: preparative organic chemistry of carbohydrates; nucleobases; nucleosides; C-nucleosides; peptide nucleic acids; indoles; alkaloids; polyamines; heterocycles; protecting groups; chemical information management
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Prof. Dr. Genxi Li
School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; And Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Tel. +86 25 83593596; Fax: +86 25 83592510
Website: http://genxililab.nju.edu.cn
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Interests: molecular interaction; molecular recognition; protein; biologically active small molecules; medicinal herb molecules; biosensor; nano-biotechnology; bioelectrochemistry
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Dr. Clifford Louime
FAMU BioEnergy Group, Technology Building D, Room 12, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
Tel. +1 850 412 7395; Fax: +1 850 561 2617
Website: http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=cesta&p=Louime
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Interests: biofuels; biotic and abiotic stress; genomics; computational biology
Contribution: Section: Green Chemistry
Special Issue: Biofuels: Energy and Fuels, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences

Prof. Dr. Werner E.G. Müller
Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung Angewandte Molekularbiologie, Universität Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Tel. +49 6131 3925910; Fax: +49 6131 3925243
Website: http://www.biotecmarin.de/
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Interests: molecular evolution; molecular biotechnology; bio-silica; sponges; biomaterials

Dr. Valdur Saks
Laboratory of Bioenergetics, INSERM U884, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
Tel. +33 4 7663 5627; Fax: +33 4 7651 4218
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Interests: bioenergetics; systems biology; biophysics; enzymology; cell physiology
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

Dr. Bing Yan
St. Jude Faculty, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Room 9064, M/S 1000, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Tel. +1 901 495 2797; Fax: +1 901 495 5715
Website: www.stjude.org/Yan
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Interests: nanomedicine; nanotoxicity; cancer therapy; drug discovery; drug resistance; combinatorial chemistry; analytical sciences
Contribution: Section: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics

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