Current Pilot Projects
- Division of Biological Sciences
- Research area: pH Dependent Mechanisms of Neural Development
- Center for Translational Medicine
- Research area: Bridging Structure and Function: Evaluating Mincle-Ligand Interactions at the Molecular Level
- Chemistry
- Research area: Functionalization of Primary Aliphatic Alkylamines Using Bio-inspired Dicobalt Complexes
Previously funded
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Ca2+听dependent mechanisms of stem cell development
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Proteomic analysis of inter-strain HCMV recombinants
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: An image analysis pipeline to assess sub-germ granule sorting of FBF-2
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research area: Synthetic Anion Transporters Utilizing Hydrogen Bond Enhanced Halogen Bonds
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research area: Measuring biases in the denatured state ensemble of the three-helix bundle fold
Richard Bridges
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area:听Molecular Specificity of System Xc- Substrates
Richard Bridges
Division of Biological Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听Sarj Patel, Dept of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research area: Structure-function of the system xc- glutamate/cystine exchanger: Identification of听xct听residues participating in binding and translocation
Department of Chemistry
Research area: CryoEM and crystallographic studies of fibronectin
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area:听Resolving the subunit composition of NMDA receptors in live cells
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Calcium Sensors for Vesicle Trafficking in the Early Secretory Pathway
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research area: Investigating the formation of biomolecular condensates of nuclear receptors and their cofactors
Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research area: Determination of the 鈥渙ff鈥 structural state of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor 纬 (PPAR纬)
Laura Jennings
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: "Sugar-coated" multi-drug resistant bacteria as a source of new antimicrobial targets
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Biophysical mechanisms of glutamate transport
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structural and phenotypic characterization of the ubiquitin binding domain of RIOK3
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: The role of Tra2-尾1 in splice site selection during RVFV infection
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area:听Characterization of virus-triggered isoforms of RIOK3, a host antiviral protein
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Mechanism of novel inhibitors of Rift Valley fever virus nucleocapsid-RNA interactions
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Co-Project Leader:听, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Co-Project Leader:听Katie Hailer, Department of Chemistry, Montana Tech of the 91次元
Research area: The role of the endonuclease VIII (nei) operon in听processing听of DNA damage and cell survival
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Interaction between NCS1 and Resistance to inhibitors of cholinesterase 8a
Michele McGuirl
Division of Biological Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听Lara M. Taubner, Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structural and physiologic consequences of native post-translational modifications of the prion protein: a mechanism for toxicity
Michael F. Minnick
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structural and functional analysis of a unique, metal-binding surface protein of听Coxiella听burnetii
Tung-Chung Mou
Division of Biological Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听Chuck Thompson
Research area: Structural Mechanism and Functional Analysis of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter Isoform 2 (VGLUT2)
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area:听Arenavirus envelope glycoprotein nanodiscs for cryoEM structural analysis
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structural analysis of the Lassa virus (LASV) envelope glycoprotein
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research area:听Nanodisc Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis: Characterizing binding to lipid bilayers
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Ca2+听dependent mechanisms of stem cell development
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: The role of SST cell dendritic spines in fear memory acquisition and extinction
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structure-function analysis of a cytomegalovirus CC chemokine
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Crystallographic studies on the UL98 gene nuclease of human cytomegalovirus
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research area: Development of multivalent 尾-1,3-glucan dendrimers as Dectin-1 agonists
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research area: TLR4 Agonist/Antagonist Binding in Murine TLR4/MD2 Receptor Complex
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Structural characterization of glycoprotein H from human cytomegalovirus
Patrick Secor
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Role of Pf phage protein PfsE in modulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
Oliver Serang
Department of听Computer Science
Research area:听Graphical models for genomics and proteomics
Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research area:听The interplay between the silk fibroin (SF) protein structure and its adhesive properties
Dept. of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听, Dept. of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听Teri Girtsman, Dept. of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research area:听The use of caspase-1 inhibition and the mitigation of interleukin-1尾 production by induced inflammasomes to isolate compounds with anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity from symbiotic bacteria of the human gut microbiome
Celestine J. Thomas
Division of Biological Sciences
Co-Project Leader:听,听Montana Biotechnology Center
Research area: Characterization of liposome fusion by a fusion-active Arenavirus envelope glycoprotein
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area:听Dissecting the determinants of phase separation and function of stem cell regulator FBF-2
Division of Biological Sciences
Research area: Protein complex assembly between signalosome subunit CSN-5 and stem cell regulators FBF-1 and FBF-2
Travis Wheeler
Department of Computer Science
Research area:听Reducing false sequence annotation due to alignment overextension and repeats