Carolyn Teschke

Professor and Head, Molecular and Cell Biology

Education

• Postdoctoral Study: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ph.D. Washington State University

Research Interests

• Biochemical, biophysical, and mutational analysis of virus assembly, especially of the thermodynamics of capsid assembly and maturation reactions.
• The role of the two SecA homologs in protein export in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• Protein folding in vivo and in vitro. Interaction of folding intermediates with molecular chaperones.