Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics


Adjunct Faculty

 

Bryan W. Berger, Ph.D.
Lehigh University
Surfactant science, membrane biology, protein crystallization, hybrid material design
web: lehigh.edu/berger
e-mail: berger@lehigh.edu

 

Robert A. Copeland, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer
EpiZyme, Inc.
840 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 401-8261 (office)
(617) 909-0858 (blackberry)
email: rcopeland@epizymebio.com

 

Nicolai Doliba, Ph.D., D.Sc.
University of Pennsylvania
the role of bioenergetics, ion transport and metabolic coupling factors in nutrient-and drug-stimulated insulin release at normal conditions and during diabetes mellitus
email: nicolai@mail.med.upenn.edu

 

Roland L. Dunbrack, Ph.D.
Member
Fox Chase Cancer Center
development of methods for protein structure prediction by homology using Bayesian statistics; application of these methods to proteins of biological and clinical interest
email:RL_Dunbrack@fccc.edu

 

Robert Fairman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Haverford College
protein folding and protein design
email: rfairman@haverford.edu

Yoshitomo Hamuro, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Technology Development
ExSAR Corporation
characterization of protein dynamics, protein-ligand interactions, protein-protein interactions, using hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry
email: yhamuro@exsar.com

Ronald H. Hoess, Ph.D.
retired from DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company
email: hoessr@earthlink.net

 

Kathleen Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Swarthmore College
studying the structure and dynamics of membrane-bound biomolecules using primarily NMR and EPR spectroscopies
email: khoward1@swarthmore.edu

 

Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D.
Wistar Institute Professor
The Wistar Institute
structure and biochemistry in transcription, protein-DNA recognition, cell-cycle, tumor suppressors, and viral oncoproteins
email:marmor@wistar.org

 

Itzhak Nissam, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Investigation of the mechanisms regulating metabolic function in normal and disease states
tel: 215-590-3392
fax: 215-590-5199
ssitz@mail.med.upenn.edu

 

Heinrich Roder, Ph.D.
Senior Member
Fox Chase Cancer Center
protein folding, structure and dynamics, NMR and optical spectroscopy
email:roder@fccc.edu

 

Emmanuel Skordalakes, Ph.D
Wistar Institute Assistant Professor
The Wistar Institute
X-ray crystallography; telomere biology; cancer and aging
email: skorda@wistar.org 

 

David W. Speicher, Ph.D.
Wistar Institute Professor
The Wistar Institute
development of novel technologies to study proteome changes associated with metastases of human cancers; structure-function of membrane proteins
email:speicher@wistar.org