Robert H. Blessing, Ph.D., Ohio University, 1971. Professor. Electron density distributions and electrostatic properties in biomolecules from crystallographic diffraction data; the crystallographic phase problem in structural chemistry and biology.

Barnali Chaudhuri, Ph.D., 1998, Uppsala University, Uppsala University, Sweden. Assistant
Professor. RNA-modification enzymes; oligomeric assembly; comparative genomics; rare amino acids.

Vivian Cody, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1969. Professor. Structure-based drug design, molecular recognition, computer modeling, protein crystal structures of folate-dependent enzymes, thyroid hormone-dependent enzymes, vanadium-binding proteins, diabetes-responsive peptides, and beta clamp proteins.

George T. DeTitta, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1973. Professor and Department Chairman. Macromolecular crystallization problem; high throughput laboratory automation; structural biology; the macromolecular crystallographic phase problem.

William L. Duax, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1967. Professor. Predicting function, cofactor and substrate specificity of thousands of putative proteins in the gene bank on the basis of amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structural homology. Tracing the origin and evolution of the genetic code and amino acid composition of proteins via analysis of genes with multiple open reading frames and a trinucleotide bias.

Daniel Gewirth, Ph.D. Yale University 1988. Assistant Professor. Structural studies of Hsp90 chaperones, drug design, protein folding, Nuclear hormone receptors, basal transcription factors.

Debashis Ghosh, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1981. Associate Professor. X-ray crystallography and structural biology of enzymes responsible for biosynthesis and activation of estrogens in breast tumors: cytochrome P450 aromatase, estrone sulfatase, and type-1 17a-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.

Jane F. Griffin, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974. Associate Professor. Structure-activity correlations of steroids and opiates using three-dimensional structures from single crystal X-ray diffraction studies; conformational analysis of small-molecule structures; analysis of analogous structures from structural databases.

Andrew M. Gulick, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1994. Assistant Professor. Crystallographic and biochemical characterization of enzymes; structural studies of the catalytic domains of the non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and related enzymes.

D.Y. Guo, Ph.D., Jilin University, 1966. Research Professor. Direct methods solutions for the crystallographic phase problem; low-resolution phasing for macromolecular crystals.

Herbert A. Hauptman, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1955. Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1985. Distinguished Professor. Direct methods in the crystallographic phase problem.

David A. Langs, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1968. Associate Professor. X-ray crystallographic phase determination methods (ab initio, MR, SIR, SAS) and structure refinement of biological macromolecules; the design of efficient computer algorithms; biological ion channels and drug/receptor interactions.

Joseph R. Luft, B.S., D’Youville College, 1985. Instructor and Senior Research Associate. Studies of crystallization of biological macromolecules. Computer automated, robotic technology for high-throughput biomolecular crystallization.

Michael G. Malkowski, Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1997. Assistant Professor. Membrane protein biochemistry; structural biology of integral membrane proteins and enzymes involved in metabolizing polyunsaturated fatty acids; macromolecular crystallography.

Walter A. Pangborn, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1973. Associate Professor. X-ray crystallographic diffraction instrumentation and experimental methodology.

L. Wayne Schultz, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995. Assistant Professor. Structure-activity relationships of enzymes associated with polycystic kidney disease and the extracellular matrix; protein crystallography and structure-based drug design.

Edward H. Snell, Ph.D., University of Manchester, England, 1996. Assistant Professor. Experimental methods development. Macromolecular crystallization and physical properties of crystals; Synchrotron based X-ray analysis techniques, ultra-high resolution X-ray studies, understanding and mitigation of radiation damage; Neutron diffraction studies.

Timothy C. Umland, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1994. Assistant Professor. Macromolecular crystallography; structural studies of the yeast prion protein Ure2p, mammalian transcriptional regulation, and coronavirus replicase and coat proteins.

Charles M. Weeks, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970. Professor. Computational crystallography; phasing methods for macromolecular crystal structure determinations; protein structure.

Hongliang Xu, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998. Assistant Professor. Direct methods; mathematical and computational crystallography.