
Department of Structural Biology
Chair
Stephen White, DPhil
Departmental Focus
A full understanding of how a biological macromolecule functions is not possible until its three-dimensional structure has been determined at the molecular level. Structural information is also essential for designing drugs that can mediate function and treat disease. These studies are typically performed by using X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and computer graphics. The Department of Structural Biology brings this expertise and these techniques to St. Jude.
Contact Us
Department of Structural Biology
MS 311, Room D1024
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: stephen.white@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-3040
FAX: (901) 595-3032
Preferred contact method: email
Faculty
Don Bashford, PhD Computational molecular biophysics
Eric J. Enemark, PhD Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication
Richard Kriwacki, PhD Structural basis of tumor suppressor function
Tanja Mittag, PhD Dynamic protein complexes in signal transduction
Junmin Peng, PhD Proteomics to ubiquitin biology and human disease
Brenda Schulman, PhD Cellular regulation by ubiquitin-like proteins
Stephen White, DPhil Structural analyses of catalysis and DNA repair
Jie Zheng, PhD Protein NMR and structure-based drug discovery