Principal Investigator Tania Baker
Co-investigators Catherine Drennan , Stephen Lippard , Barbara Imperiali , Robert Sauer , Anthony Sinskey , JoAnne Stubbe , Peter Dedon , Robert Griffin , Amy Keating , Jonathan King , Thomas Schwartz , John Essigmann , Michael Laub , Douglas Lauffenburger , Ram Sasisekharan , Bruce Tidor , Michael Yaffe , K Wittrup , Alan Jasanoff , Jacquin Niles , Steven Tannenbaum , Forest White , Uttam RajBhandary
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/chembiointerface/Home.html
The Chemistry Biology Interface at MIT provides a training mechanism that maintains academic depth within the core areas of chemistry, physics, biology and engineering, but also provides disciplinary breadth.
The Chemistry/Biology Interface is designed to bring together faculty and students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology, and the Biological Engineering Division, spanning the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT
Research at the Chemistry/Biology interface pervades the fields of biomedicine, cell and developmental biology, bioimaging, structural biology, enzymology, and synthetic biology. These areas of investigation are well represented at MIT, where a common theme is the application of rigorous physical and chemical methods to the molecular dissection of biological pathways, reactions, and circuitry. It is critical that graduate students, while trained in increasingly sophisticated methods, still communicate effectively across disciplines.
Faculty are involved in various research topics:BiocatalysisBiophysics and Structural BiologyComputational ModelingDNA and RNAEngineering Proteins and Metabolic PathwaysGenomics, Proteomics, MetabolomicsImagingMetabolismMolecular Therapeutics: Discovery, Delivery, Metabolism and MechanismNeurobiology SystemsOrganic Chemical SynthesisProtein Folding and StructureProtein ModificationSignal TransductionSystems Biology