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Follow the links below to become acquainted with Hauptman-Woodward’s scientists and their research projects. All of the Institute’s Research Scientists are also assistant, associate, or full professors in the Structural Biology Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Scientist		Contact	Research Interests
	Robert H. Blessing	716 898-8613 blessing@hwi.buffalo.edu	Electron-density distributions and properties of biomolecules.
	Barnali Chaudhuri	716 898-8681 bchaudhuri@hwi.buffalo.edu	RNA-modification enzymes; oligomeric assembly; comparative genomics; rare amino acids.
	Vivian Cody	716 898-8614 cody@hwi.buffalo.edu	AIDS and cancer-related enzyme targets.
	George T. DeTitta	716 898-8611 detitta@hwi.buffalo.edu	High-throughput crystallization and laboratory automation.
	William L. Duax	716 898-8616 duax@hwi.buffalo.edu	Short-chain oxidoreductase enzymes. Polycystic kidney disease. Genetic code evolution.
	Daniel T. Gewirth	716 898-8635 gewirth@hwi.buffalo.edu	Hsp90 chaperones; androgen and nuclear hormone receptors.
	Debashis Ghosh	716 898-8617 ghosh@hwi.buffalo.edu	Enzymes responsible for estrogen biosynthesis.
	Jane F. Griffin	716 898-8618 griffin@hwi.buffalo.edu	Structural databases; steroid structure.
	Andrew M. Gulick	716 898-8619 gulick@hwi.buffalo.edu	Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and related enzymes.
	Dongyao Guo	716 898-8620 guo@hwi.buffalo.edu	Methods of crystal structure determination.
	Herbert A. Hauptman	716 898-8600 hauptman@hwi.buffalo.edu	The crystallographic phase problem.
	David A. Langs	716 898-8622 langs@hwi.buffalo.edu	Crystallographic phase determination methods.
	Eaton E. Lattman	716 898-8600 lattman@hwi.buffalo.edu	Crystallographic studies of stability and function mutants of staphylococcal nuclease.
	Joseph R. Luft	716 898-8623 luft@hwi.buffalo.edu	Develop methods for the crystallization of biological macromolecules.
	Michael G. Malkowski	716 898-8624 malkowski@hwi.buffalo.edu	Structure and function of integral membrane proteins involved in lipid metabolism.
	Walter A. Pangborn	716 898-8610 pangborn@hwi.buffalo.edu	Diffraction instrumentation and experimental methodology.
	Vladimir Pletnev	716 898-8629 pletnev@hwi.buffalo.edu	Protein structure-function relationships.
	L. Wayne Schultz	716 898-8640 schultz@hwi.buffalo.edu	SARS-related proteins. Bioluminescence.
	G. David Smith (emeritus)	416 813-5378 gdsmith@sauron.psf.sickkids.on.ca	Structural chemistry of insulin, and the T to R transition in insulin.
	Edward H. Snell	716 898-8631 esnell@hwi.buffalo.edu	Development of experimental diffraction methods.
	Timothy C. Umland	716 898-8632 umland@hwi.buffalo.edu	Protein•protein and protein•DNA interactions related to function.
	Charles M. Weeks	716 898-8633 weeks@hwi.buffalo.edu	Phasing methods; automation of protein structure determination.
	Hongliang Xu	716 898-8634 xu@hwi.buffalo.edu	Mathematical and computational crystallography.
VISITING SCIENTISTS
	Roopa Thapar	716 898-8687 rthapar@hwi.buffalo.edu	RNA-Protein interactions and NMR.
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