Members of the Center for RNA Biology

Juan Alfonzo, Associate Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Editing and Modification of tRNA: Roles in Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Disease

Irina Artsimovitch, Associate Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Molecular mechanism and regulation of transcription

Daniel Battle, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]

Amanda Bird, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Roles of metal ions in RNA metabolism; ncRNAs

David Bisaro, Professor of Molecular Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Viral pathogenesis, small RNA-directed chromatin methylation, viral suppression of transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing

Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, Professor of Veterinary Biosciences - [osu:pro] [publications]
Post-transcriptional regulation of retroviruses and their host cells

Ralf Bundschuh, Associate Professor of Physics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Computational modeling of RNA structure and kinetics, RNA editing, sequence analysis

Dawn Chandler, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Mechanisms of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in the DNA damage response

Tien-Hsien Chang, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Roles of DExD/H-box proteins in the genetic information transfer pathway

James A Cowan, Professor of Chemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Structure and chemistry of RNA as a drug target and the design of novel metallopharmaceuticals against viral and pathogen RNA motifs

Charles J Daniels, Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
tRNA metabolism in the Archaea

Biao Ding, Professor of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Mechanisms of RNA replication and cell-to-cell trafficking

Mark Foster, Associate Professor of Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Protein-nucleic acid interactions, NMR spectroscopy, biophysical methods

Kurt Fredrick, Assistant Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Ribosome structure and function

Venkat Gopalan, Associate Professor of Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Structure-function relationships in RNase P, a catalytic RNP complex

Patrick L Green, Professor of Veterinary Biosciences - [osu:pro] [publications]
Regulation of human T cell leukemia virus gene expression and cellular transformation

Tina M Henkin, Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
How nascent transcripts recognize specific effectors and use that information to control gene expression

Anita Hopper, Professor of Molecular Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Intracellular trafficking of RNA and proteins; Nucleus organization; RNA processing

Michael Ibba, Associate Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Protein synthesis in bacteria and archaea; antibiotic resistance

Jane Jackman, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Molecular mechanisms of tRNA processing enzymes

J C Jang, Associate Professor of Horticulture and Crop Sciences - [osu:pro] [publications]
The roles of tandem zinc finger proteins in plant RNA granule formation and gene expression.

Stephen J Kolb, Assistant Professor of Neurology - [osu:pro] [publications]
RNA metabolism in neurological diseases

Joseph A Krzycki, Professor of Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Genetically encoded pyrrolysine in methanogenic Archaea

Jianrong Li, Assistant Professor of Virology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Messenger RNA processing in paramyxoviruses

Robert S Munson Jr., Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology - [osu:pro] [publications]
Identification, characterization and regulation of expression of Haemophilus influenzae virulence determinants

Karin Musier-Forsyth, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and nucleic acid-protein interactions in HIV

Danilo Perrotti, Assistant Professor of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Oncogenic tyrosine kinases, signal transduction pathways and RNA binding proteins

Daniel R Schoenberg, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Fundamental aspects of mRNA metabolism and the role of mRNA decay in inherited genetic disorders and cancer

R Keith Slotkin, Assistant Professor, PCMB and Molecular Genetics - [osu:pro]
My laboratory aims to discover how potentially mutagenic “jumping genes” or transposable elements are epigenetically repressed from generation to generation, as well as how this system has been adopted over evolutionary time to regulate non-transposable element genes.

Zucai Suo, Associate Professor of Biochemistry - [osu:pro] [publications]
Mechanistic and inhibitory studies of hepatitis C RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NS5B) and single molecule enzymology of RNA processing

Robin Wharton, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics - [osu:pro] [publications]
Translational control during Drosophila development