Faculty
Core Faculty
Core Faculty
![Joanna Slusky](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Joanna_Slusky_ku_portrait_low_res.jpg)
Joanna Slusky
Associate Professorslusky@ku.edu
785-864-6506
Research: Exploring membrane protein folding through protein design, bioinformatics, and molecular biology.
![Ilya Vakser](/sites/compbio/files/images/person-profile/Vakser.jpg)
Ilya Vakser
Director, Professorvakser@ku.edu
785-864-1057
Research: ​Molecular Recognition in Structural Bioinformatics
Research Faculty
Research Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
![Brian Ackley](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Brian_Ackley_OPT%2525281%252529.jpg)
Brian Ackley
Associate Professor, Co-Director, Undergraduate Biology Programbdackley@ku.edu
Research: Interaction between neurons and their environment.
![Malay Basu](/sites/compbio/files/images/person-profile/malay2.jpg)
Malay Basu
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicinembasu@kumc.edu
Research:
- Computational Genomics
- Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Evolutionary and comparative genomics
![Kyle Camarda](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Camarda_Kyle%252520V_13002_OPT.jpg)
Kyle Camarda
Associate Professorcamarda@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-2908
Research: High-performance computing for design of new biological agents.
![Roberto De Guzman](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Deguzman_Roberto.jpg)
Roberto De Guzman
Professorrdguzman@ku.edu
Research: Structural studies of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions in bacterial and viral pathogenesis.
![Susan Egan](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Egan_Susan.jpg)
Susan Egan
Professorsme@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-4294
Research: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial transcription activation; AraC family proteins.
![Christopher Fischer](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/fischer.jpg)
Christopher Fischer
Professor, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomyshark@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-4579
Research: Kinetics and the thermodynamics of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions.
![Ryan Funk](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/ryan-funk-web.jpg)
Ryan Funk
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practiceryanfunk@kumc.edu
913-945-6904
Research: Pediatrics, Clinical Pharmacology, Rheumatology
![Robert Hanzlik](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/robert_hanzlik_0.jpg)
Robert Hanzlik
Emeritus Professorrhanzlik@ku.edu
Research: Medicinal Chemistry. Identification and proteomic analysis of target proteins in relation to cytotoxicity of chemically reactive metabolites. Mechanistic studies of cytochrome P450 family enzymes.
![Leslie Heckert](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/heckert.jpg)
Leslie Heckert
Professor, Marion M. Osborn Professor for Reproductive Scienceslheckert@kumc.edu
913-588-7488
Research: Molecular mechanisms that regulate cellular differentiation and organ development of the reproductive system.
![P. Scott Hefty](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/hefty-scott.jpg)
P. Scott Hefty
Professor, MB Chair, Director and PI, Center for Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CoBRE)pshefty@ku.edu
Research: Mechanisms of developmental gene regulation and pathogenesis for Chlamydia.
![Erik Holmstrom](/sites/compbio/files/images/person-profile/holmstrom_erik.jpg)
Erik Holmstrom
Assistant Professorerik.d.holmstrom@ku.edu
785-864-3847
Research: Single-molecule biophysical studies of RNA-protein interactions
![Krzysztof Kuczera](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/kuczera2.jpg)
Krzysztof Kuczera
Professorkkuczera@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-5060
Research: Methods of modern computational chemistry to study structure, dynamics and thermodynamics of complex molecular systems.
![Erik Lundquist](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/lundquist_042613b.jpg)
Erik Lundquist
Professor, Associate Vice Chancellor for Researcherikl@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-5853
Research: Molecular signaling events that underlie cellular morphogenesis.
![Stuart Macdonald](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/stuart_portrait.jpg)
Stuart Macdonald
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciencessjmac@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-5362
Research: Genetics of complex traits, Genome biology, Drosophila quantitative genetics.
![Russ Middaugh](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Russ%252520Middaugh.jpg)
Russ Middaugh
Emeritus - Distinguished Professormiddaugh@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-5813
Research: Stability of peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, macromolecular assemblies, virus like particles, viruses and bacteria that are of pharmaceutical interest
![Bozenna Pasik-Duncan](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/bozenna.jpg)
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Professorbozenna@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-5162
Research: Stochastic adaptive control and Mathematics and Science education.
![Christian Schoneich](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/Schoeneich.jpg)
Christian Schöneich
Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dept. Chair - Pharmaceutical Chemistryschoneic@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-4880
Research: Oxidative post-translational modification of proteins in vitro and in vivo.
![Peter Smith](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/psmith.jpg)
Peter Smith
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Senior Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine, Wineinger Endowed Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiologypsmith@kumc.edu
Research: Nerve regulation in a variety of systems including the cardiovascular system, eye, skin, and reproductive tract.
![Barbara Timmermann](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/barbara_timmermann.jpg)
Barbara Timmermann
University Distinguished Professor, Department Chair - Medicinal Chemistrybtimmer@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-4844
Research: Natural products at chemistry-biology interface.
![Robert Unckless](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/unckless180x225.jpg)
Robert Unckless
Associate Professorunckless@ku.edu
785-864-1679
Research: Evolutionary genetics and genomics of insect immune defense.
![Cuncong Zhong](/sites/compbio/files/person_profiles/zhong_cuncong.jpg)
Cuncong Zhong
Associate Professorcczhong@ku.edu
Research: Metagenomics, cancer genomics, non-coding RNA function and structures, machine learning, and algorithms and data structures