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- Yifan Cheng, PhD
- Charles Craik, PhD
- Seemay Chou, PhD
- Roger Cooke, PhD
- James Fraser, PhD
- Adam Frost, PhD, MD
- John Gross, PhD
- Natalia Jura, PhD
- Wendell Lim, PhD
- Aashish Manglik, PhD, MD
- Daniel Minor, PhD
- Oren Rosenberg, MD, PhD
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- Kevan Shokat, PhD
- Robert Stroud, PhD
- Jonathan Weissman, PhD
- Allison Williams, PhD
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David Agard, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
+1 415 476-5143
Discovering the Structural Basis for Biological Function at the Molecular and Cellular Levels
Our research is focused on elucidating the mechanism of Hsp90 chaperone function and its role in human disease, microtubule nucleation and centrosome structure, and the structure and cell biology of phage-encoded tubulins.
In efforts to understand the spatial and temporal regulation of tubulin polymerization into microtubules (MTs), we seek to understand, in atomic detail, the molecular mechanisms underlying dynamic MT behavior and MT nucleation.
Accompanying this is an effort to develop new technologies for high-resolution cryoEM and fluorescence light microscopy.
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