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Research programs of the faculty encompass broad areas of modern biochemistry, biophysics, molecular and cellular biology. These include chromatin structure and function, eucaryotic cell surface receptors and signal transduction, mechanisms of protein synthesis and translational control, nucleic acid chemistry, regulation of gene expression, cellular oxygen metabolism, signal transduction mediated by protein kinases, cell surface glycobiology, fragile X and autism, high through-put transcriptome analyses and structure/function of membrane proteins.
In addition, the Rowe Program in Human Genetics is housed in the department. The research programs are funded by numerous extramural agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Human Frontiers Science Program and the Department of Energy.
The department is well-equipped with modern instrumentation for research in the biological sciences at the molecular level. It also is closely affiliated with the UC Davis nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facility, which provides and supports several high field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers used for macromolecular structure determination and in vivo metabolic studies, and the UC Davis Protein Structure Laboratory, which provides amino acid analysis, protein sequencing, oligonucleotide synthesis and mass spectroscopy to the department as well as to the campus at large.