Chemical Biology

Taylor Arhar
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
taylor.arhar@sjsu.edu 
ISB 458
Arhar Lab Research Page

Protein biochemistry and bacterial genetics to study molecular chaperones as potential antibacterial targets

Emma Carroll
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
emma.carroll@sjsu.edu 
ISB 454
Carroll Lab Research Group Page

The Carroll lab studies the effects of the cellular environment on protein misfolding, aggregation, and amyloid formation. We are also interested in how the cellular protein homeostasis network, especially ubiquitin, responds to different amyloidosis.

Gianmarc Grazioli 
Assistant Professor, Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics
408-924-4826
gianmarc.grazioli@sjsu.edu  
DH 005B 
Grazioli Research Group Page

Computational methods development using molecular simulations and machine learning to study configurational dynamics in biomolecules, molecular self-assembly, and reaction dynamics.

Brooke Lustig
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical, Chemical, and Materials, Computational Biochemistry
408-924-4968
brooke.lustig@sjsu.edu
DH 417
Lustig Research Group Page

Computational/theoretical methods to characterize entropy and related effects in proteins and RNA; drug design that includes potential anti-HIV agents.

Laura Miller Conrad
Associate Professor, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry
408-924-4957
laura.miller.conrad@sjsu.edu
ISB 354
Miller Conrad Research Group Page

Synthesis and investigation of anti-quorum sensing and anti-virulence compounds in bacteria.

Gilles Muller
Professor, Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
408-924-2632
gilles.muller@sjsu.edu
DH 412A
Muller Research Group Page

Lanthanides, complexes, circularly polarized luminescence, chirality, thermodynamics, and spectroscopy.

Ningkun Wang
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
408-924-4955
ningkun.wang@sjsu.edu
ISB 456
Wang Research Group Page

Protein conformational dynamics, protein-protein interactions, enzyme specificty.