Name/Degree(s) | Rank | Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) | Role in Program | Research Interrest |
Amster, I. Jonathan, Ph.D. | Professor | Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia | Mentor, Co-P.I. | Development of mass spectrometric analyses of glycosaminoglycans |
Avci, Fikri, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor |
Activation of the adaptive immune response against carbohydrate antigens |
Azadi, Parastoo, Ph.D. | Senior Research Scientist | Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, UGA | Mentor |
Structural analysis of oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids by mass spectrometry |
Bar-Peled, Maor, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Bacterial Bio-film biosynthesis and deposition |
Barb, Adam, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | How glycosylation affects protein function |
Boons, Geert-Jan, Ph.D. | Professor | Department of Chemistry, UGA | Mentor | Synthesis of glycans and glycoconjugates; vaccine development |
Crich, David, Ph.D. | Eminent Scholar and Professor | Department of Chemistry, UGA | Mentor | Synthesis of carbohydrates, drug development |
Dalton, Stephen, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation down diverse lineages |
Edison, Arthur, Ph.D. | Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Metabolomics and Glycomics of C. elegans |
Haltiwanger, Robert, Ph.D. | GRA Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Glycoscience, Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor, Co-P.I. | Role of glycosylation in development, cancer and protein folding |
Harn, Donald, Ph.D. | Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator and Professor | Dept. of Infectious Diseases, UGA | Mentor | Glycans as inhibitors of innate immunity |
Hart, Gerald, Ph.D. | Eminent Scholar and Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Role of glycosylation in diabetes, cancer and biology |
Hines, Kelly, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Chemistry, UGA | Mentor | Structure and function of bacterial glycolipids |
Kannan, Natarajan, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Systems, informatics and synthetic biology approaches to investigate sequence, structure, function, disease relationships in glycoenzymes |
Leach, Franklin, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Chemistry, UGA | Mentor | Mass spectral analysis of glycosaminoglycan structures |
Mohnen, Debra, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Plant cell wall biosynthesis and production of improved plants |
Moremen, Kelley W., Ph.D. | Research Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Biochemistry, molecular biology structural biology, and regulation of protein glycosylation |
Pierce, J. Michael, Ph.D. | Research Professor, | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Cancer and stem cell glycomics and glycomarkers; lectins in innate immunity |
Prestegard, James H., Ph.D. | Professor, Eminent Scholar | Dept. of Chemistry (joint)Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | NMR spectroscopy of glycan-protein interactions; new NMR technologies |
Szymanski, Christine, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Microbiology UGA | Mentor | Biosynthesis and function of bacterial glycans |
Tiemeyer, Michael, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Regulation of tissue-specific glycan expression in development and disease |
Trent, Stephen, Ph.D. | Distinguished Professor | Dept. of Infectious Diseases, UGA | Mentor | Bacterial polysaccharide biosynthesis |
Urbanowicz, Breeanna, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Investigating the mechanism of plant polysaccharide synthesis to develop enzymatic routes for synthesis of new polymers and bioinspired materials. |
Weiss, Ryan, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Investigating the regulatory mechanisms of glycosylation using genomic, chemical, and genetic approaches with particular focus on the discovery of novel drugs and targets to treat human diseases. |
Wells, Lance, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,Adjunct Dept. of Chemistry, UGA | Mentor | O-Glycosylation in Diabetes, Cancer, and Congenital Muscular Dystrophy |
West, Chris, Ph.D. | Head, Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | Parasite Glycobiology; glycosylation in the nucleus and cytoplasm |
Wood, Zachary A., Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA | Mentor | |
Woods, Robert, Ph.D. | Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA (joint) Dept of Chemistry, Nat’l University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland | Mentor | Developmens of Computational Tools for studying glycan-protein interactions |