Chemical Biology
Chemical Biology Research Group Members
Taylor Arhar
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
taylor.arhar@sjsu.edu
ISB 458
Protein biochemistry and bacterial genetics to study molecular chaperones as potential
antibacterial targets
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
emma.carroll@sjsu.edu
ISB 454
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.
Daryl Eggers
Professor, Biochemistry
408-924-4960
daryl.eggers@sjsu.edu
DH 286
Crowding and hydration effects on macromolecular structure.
Assistant Professor, Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics
408-924-4826
gianmarc.grazioli@sjsu.edu
DH 005B
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
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
DH 608
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
Lanthanides, complexes, circularly polarized luminescence, chirality, thermodynamics, and spectroscopy.
Ningkun Wang
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
408-924-4955
ningkun.wang@sjsu.edu
DH 607
Protein conformational dynamics, protein-protein interactions, enzyme specificty.
