Using powerful techniques such as X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy, as well as biochemical or biophysical methods, models of macromolecules and their properties are used to explain the molecular basis of catalysis, recognition and disease.
Chandrajit Bajaj
- Professor
Brett Baker
- Associate Professor
- Co-director, Center for Planetary Science and Habitability
Ethel Bayer-Santos
- Assistant Professor
Brian Belardi
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Xiaolu (Lulu) Lim Ang Cambronne
- Associate Professor
Can Cenik
- Associate Professor
Looking for highly motivated and ambitious Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows to join the team.
Lydia M. Contreras
- Professor
- Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professorship in Chemical Engineering
Kevin N Dalby
- Professor
Daniel J. Dickinson
- Associate Professor
Stephen Carl Ekker
- Professor
Andrew Ellington
- Professor
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry (Holder)
Ilya J. Finkelstein
- Professor
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
George Georgiou
- Professor
- Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering #2
Marvin L. Hackert
- Professor Emeritus
- William Shive Centennial Professorship in Biochemistry
- Interim Program Manager - Dobie Paisano Ranch
After 51+ years at The University of Texas at Austin and nearly 30 years in administration, Dr. Hackert has begun limited Phased Retirement and no longer has a research lab or is he taking students. Since 2012 he has been active in 3D printing and promoting the benefits of crystallography and biochemistry to society by giving lectures around the world and creating a number of public displays on the UT Austin campus.
David W. Hoffman
- Associate Professor
Ken Hsu
- Associate Professor
- Department of Chemistry
Stephen F. and Fay Evans Martin Endowed Professorship in Chemistry (Fellow)
Andres Jara-Oseguera
- Assistant Professor
Potentially Recruiting Students 26-27 Academic Year
Kenneth Johnson
- Professor
- Roger J. Williams Centennial Professorship in Biochemistry
Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay
- Professor
Zunlong Ke
- Assistant Professor
The Ke Lab is actively recruiting:
- graduate students
Ken Keiler
- Professor
Alan Lambowitz
- Professor
- Professor of Oncology
- Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
Daniel J. Leahy
- Professor
- Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
Jie Li
- Associate Professor of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu
- Professor
- George H. Hitchings Regents Chair in Drug Design
Yi Lu
- Professor
- Department of Chemistry
Edward M. Marcotte
- Professor
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
Andreas Matouschek
- Professor
- Senior Associate Dean for Research and Resource Management
- Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Jennifer Maynard
- Professor
- Z. D. Bonner Professorship of Chemical Engineering
Despoina Mavridou
- Associate Professor
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
Jason McLellan
- Professor
- Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay
- Professor
- Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Robert Newberry
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemistry
Rick Russell
- Professor
- Associate Chair for Graduate Education
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
David W. Taylor
- Associate Professor
- Marvin L. Hackert Professor in Structural Biology Fellow
Lauren Webb
- Professor
- Associate Dean for Graduate Education
Joseph & Jeanne Lagowski Professor in Chemistry
Christian P Whitman
- Professor
Y. Jessie Zhang
- Professor
- L. Leon Campbell, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship in Biochemistry