USA College of Medicine
 
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
 
   
   
Faculty  
 
Aronson, Nathan N., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

(251) 460-6402
Email: naronson@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Family 18 chitinases and related proteins: Structure and function in tissue remodeling; glycoprotein degradation and human disease
 
Barik, Sailen, Ph.D.
Professor

(251) 460-6860
Email: sbarik@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Signal transduction in relation to gene regulation in infectious agents, functional genomics, reversible phosphorylation, structure-function analysis of protein kinases, phosphatases, and their physiological substrates.
 

Bitko, Vira
Assistant Professor

Email: vbitko@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Host-virus interactions, mechanisms by which RNA viruses block INF alpha/ beta response – a major component of innate defense against viral infection, human metapneumovirus (hMPV).

 
Funkhouser, Jane D. Ph.D.
Professor

(251) 460-6843
Email: jfunkhouser@usouthal.edu
Lung epithelial cell differentiation, fetal lung development, mechanisms associated with lung injury, cell-surface aminopeptidases as regulators of signaling in epithelial cells.
 

Gerthoffer, William T., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

(251) 460-6856
Email: wgerthoffer@usouthal.edu
Regulation of actin cytoskeleton, myosin motor proteins and small heat shock proteins by protein kinases in smooth muscle.

 
Honkanen, Richard E., Ph.D.
Professor

(251) 460-6859
Email: honkanen@sungcg.usouthal.edu
Protein phosphatases (molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis; mechanisms of cardioprotective agents in ischemic myocytes).
 
Lane, Roger S. Ph.D.
Associate Professor

(251) 460-6842
Email: rlane@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Medical Biochemistry Education
 

Adjunct Faculty

Flodin, N.W., Ph.D. (251) 460-6853

Pannell, L., Ph.D. (251) 4148201

Sjoholm, Ake, Ph.D.

Turrens, J.F., Ph.D. (251) 380-2710

   

Staff

Cathy G. Thompson
Secretary V
Phone:460-6402
Fax: 460-6850
Email: cgthompson@usouthal.edu
 
   

Betty Farley
Grants Administration Specialist
Phone: 460-6851
Fax: 460-6850
Email: bfarley@usouthal.edu

 
   
 


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