The UCI Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Training Program is part of the large, multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences. The Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Training Program functions as an area of study within the larger program, sharing a common core curriculum and admissions process. Research in this graduate focus group spans the areas of bioinformatics, ion channels, membrane transport, metallobiochemistry, optical biology, protein crystallography and protein folding. The research groups within this focus are actively involved in the area of investigating molecular function with the aid of structural biology. The tools used here vary among the breadth of established biophysical techniques.
Available state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural biology and molecular biophysics includes a Rigaku R-Axis IV imaging plate area detector with mirror optics, a Siemens X-1000 multi-wire detector with mirror optics, 800 MHz NMR spectrometer, SGI 3D-graphics workstations and servers, DEC Alpha workstations and servers, access to a local HP/Convex Exemplar SPP2000 with 16 CPUs (HP PA-8000) with 2 GB main memory, as well as other computational resources. Further instrumentation includes atomic force microscopy (AFM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), a Jasco J-720 circular dichroism spectropolarimeter, MSC titration calorimeter, and Microcal VP-DSC scanning calorimeter.
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