The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at UAB is comprised of scientists focused on cutting-edge research and discovery. To accomplish their research goals, our faculty deploy a diverse range of experimental and analytical technologies, including NMR, mass spectrometry, crystallography, genetic analyses, genomics, and enzymology.
Our faculty are housed in the Shelby Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Building, the McCallum Basic Health Sciences Building, the Bevill Biomedical Research Building, and the Kaul Human Genetics Building. Being centrally located in the UAB Health Sciences complex provides unique opportunities for collaborative research with many other basic and clinical investigators.
Faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics are scientists focused on cutting-edge research and discovery. Areas of research include:
Bacterial/Viral Pathogenesis
Sanjib Banerjee, Gino Cingolani, Champion Deivanayagam, Chad Petit, Fengbin Wang
Cancer & Cell Signaling/Epigenetics
Sanjib Banerjee, Olga Beliaeva, Gino Cingolani, Yvonne Edwards, Romi Gupta, Natalia Kedishvili, Sathish Padi, William Placzek, Kirill Popov, Lindsay Rizzardi, David Schneider, Narendra Wajapeyee,
DNA Synthesis/Replication/Repair
Sanjib Banerjee, Igor Chesnokov, Robert van Waardenburg
Metabolism
Olga Beliaeva, Natalia Kedishvili, Kirill Popov
Molecular Therapeutics
Stephen Aller, Corinne Augelli-Szafran, Sanjib Banerjee, David Bedwell, Yvonne Edwards, Kim Keeling, Lindsay Rizzardi, Robert van Waardenburg
Regulation of Gene Expression
David Bedwell, Olga Beliaeva, Yvonne Edwards, Romi Gupta, Kim Keeling, Sathish Padi, Matthew Renfrow, Lindsay Rizzardi, David Schneider, Robert van Waardenburg, Narendra Wajapeyee, Rui Zhao
Structural & Chemical Biology
Stephen Aller, Corinne Augelli-Szafran, Gino Cingolani, Champion Deivanayagam, Sathish Padi, Chad Petit, William Placzek, Matthew Renfrow, Dmitry Vassylyev, Fengbin Wang
"The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry." – Francis Crick (1966) Of Molecules and Men.