The study of molecular and cell biology in the School of Biological Sciences includes the following topics:
- Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell biology, including cell signaling, cell differentiation, cancer biology, receptor trafficking, and bacterial pathogenesis
- Molecular physiology, including human pathophysiology, and the regulation and function of membrane proteins
- Molecular biophysics and structural biology, including the structures and functions of nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids
- Molecular genetics in animal, plant, and microbial systems, including control of gene expression, genome stability, genomics, genetic control of protein folding, and epigenetic phenomena such as prions
- Molecular evolution, including molecular population genetics, comparative and functional evolutionary genomics
Faculty in this focus area
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Edward Balog
Associate Professor -
Sam Brown
Professor -
Yury Chernoff
Professor -
Timothy Cope
Professor Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Director of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology PhD Program -
Thomas DiChristina
Professor -
Steve Diggle
Professor and Director of the Center for Microbial Dynamics & Infection -
Yuhong Fan
Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Scholar -
Greg Gibson
Regents Professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics -
Michael Goodisman
Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty -
Brian Hammer
Associate Professor -
Liang Han
Associate Professor -
Saumya Jain
Assistant Professor -
Julia Kubanek
Professor and Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research -
Abigail Lind
Assistant Professor -
Kirill Lobachev
Associate Professor -
John McDonald
Professor -
Nathan Mcdonald
Assistant Professor -
Alfred Merrill
Professor Emeritus -
Farzaneh Najafi
Assistant Professor -
Shuyi Nie
Assistant Professor -
Annalise Paaby
Assistant Professor -
Christina Ragan
Academic Professional -
William Ratcliff
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences -
Frank Rosenzweig
Professor -
Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey
Associate Professor -
Jeffrey Skolnick
Regents' Professor; Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology -
Lauren Speare
Assistant Professor -
Haley Steele
Academic Professional -
Alberto Stolfi
Associate Professor -
Francesca Storici
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Education -
Jeffrey Streelman
Professor and Chair -
Matthew Torres
Associate Professor -
Marvin Whiteley
Professor Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech Bennie H. and Nelson D. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center (CF@LANTA)
