People
The CBP consists of faculty, research staff, visitors, and students at UMass Amherst. It has collaborators across campus and in the Five College region of Western Massachusetts. Affiliated faculty serve on the Executive Committee and the Steering Committee.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Understanding cellular dynamics, organization, and transport through the development of artificial biological membranes.
Professor, CBP Interim director
Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Development of advanced computational methods and their applications to the study of biomolecules and biomaterials.
Professor
Physics Department
The role of membrane tension, morphology, and composition in guiding the binding and activity of proteins relevant to cell trafficking and communication.
Professor and CBP Director
Physics Department
Single-molecule-sensitive biophysics with an emphasis on molecular mechanics and interactions in confining and complex environments.
Professor
Microbiology
Redox-cycling mechanisms and oxygen radical generation in systems that impact both humans and the environment.
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The study of protein structure, protein-membrane and protein-protein interactions using a variety of biophysical, biochemical, and molecular biological approaches.
Professor
Chemistry
Structure and fundamental mechanisms in transcription; RNA folding.
Professor
Polymer Science and Engineering Department
Understanding how macromolecules, both biological and synthetic, assume their sizes and shapes, organize into assemblies, and move around in crowded environments.
Professor
Biology Department
Assembly of the mammalian mitotic spindle. Current projects examine regulation of mitotic motor proteins by the microtubule associated protein, TPX2, using live cells and in vitro TIRF assays.
Assistant Professor
Physics
Cell motility in anisotropic fluids and complex environments.
