Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University

25 faculty and 0 courses in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.

Faculty

• Antonis Rokas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences h-index 90
  Notable: “The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes” (2012) · 1,798 citations
• Eric Skaar, University Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 84
  Notable: “Nutritional immunity: transition metals at the pathogen–host interface” (2012) · 1,551 citations
• Todd R. Graham, Stevenson Professor; Interim Chair of Biological Sciences h-index 81
  Notable: “Refined structure of αβ-tubulin at 3.5 Å resolution 1 1Edited by I. A. Wilson” (2001) · 1,154 citations
• Kendal S. Broadie, Stevenson Professor of Neurobiology; Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 60
  Notable: “Targeted expression of tetanus toxin light chain in Drosophila specifically eliminates synaptic transmission and causes behavioral defects” (1995) · 982 citations
• Laurence J. Zwiebel, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences h-index 52
  Notable: “G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Anopheles gambiae” (2002) · 683 citations
• Douglas G. McMahon, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 50
  Notable: “Synchronization and Maintenance of Timekeeping in Suprachiasmatic Circadian Clock Cells by Neuropeptidergic Signaling” (2006) · 441 citations
• Kenneth C. Catania, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 43
  Notable: “Hypersensitivity to contact inhibition provides a clue to cancer resistance of naked mole-rat” (2009) · 403 citations
• Julian F. Hillyer, Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 38
  Notable: “Gastrointestinal persorption and tissue distribution of differently sized colloidal gold nanoparticles” (2001) · 672 citations
• Brandt F. Eichman, William R. Kenan Jr. Chair; Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 35
  Notable: “SMARCAL1 catalyzes fork regression and Holliday junction migration to maintain genome stability during DNA replication” (2012) · 292 citations
• Lars Plate, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 34
  Notable: ““Inverse Drug Discovery” Strategy To Identify Proteins That Are Targeted by Latent Electrophiles As Exemplified by Aryl Fluorosulfates” (2017) · 305 citations
• Daniel J. Funk, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 33
  Notable: “Species-Level Paraphyly and Polyphyly: Frequency, Causes, and Consequences, with Insights from Animal Mitochondrial DNA” (2003) · 2,267 citations
• Amanda Lea, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 31
  Notable: “The redox couple between glutathione and ascorbic acid: A chemical and physiological perspective” (1994) · 492 citations
• Larisa DeSantis, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 31
  Notable: “Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives” (2017) · 316 citations
• Nicole Creanza, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 24
  Notable: “Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters” (2017) · 491 citations
• Katherine L. Friedman, Professor and Vice Chair of Biological Sciences h-index 20
  Notable: “Pif1 family helicases suppress genome instability at G-quadruplex motifs” (2013) · 473 citations
• Ann Tate, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 18
  Notable: “Tracking Resilience to Infections by Mapping Disease Space” (2016) · 150 citations
• Lauren Parker Jackson, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 17
  Notable: “A Large-Scale Conformational Change Couples Membrane Recruitment to Cargo Binding in the AP2 Clathrin Adaptor Complex” (2010) · 397 citations
• Megan Behringer, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 16
  Notable: “Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles” (2018) · 163 citations
• Allison Walker, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 15
  Notable: “Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery” (2023) · 391 citations
• Jared Nordman, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 14
  Notable: “Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE” (2010) · 1,306 citations
• Alexandre Tiriac, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 13
  Notable: “Rapid Whisker Movements in Sleeping Newborn Rats” (2012) · 131 citations
• Gianni Castiglione, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 12
  Notable: “ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are expressed on the human ocular surface, suggesting susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection” (2020) · 343 citations
• Marie Suver, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences h-index 7
  Notable: “Octopamine Neurons Mediate Flight-Induced Modulation of Visual Processing in Drosophila” (2012) · 207 citations
• Carl H. Johnson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences
• Eva Karasmanis, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
  Notable: “The molecular architecture of tunneling nanotubes” (2026)

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.