16 faculty and 38 courses in Biochemistry at Wesleyan University.
- Manju Hingorani, Distinguished Research Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (Affiliated) h-index 38
Notable: “Mechanism of Processivity Clamp Opening by the Delta Subunit Wrench of the Clamp Loader Complex of E. coli DNA Polymerase III” (2001) · 264 citations
- Donald B. Oliver, Chair; Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 31
Notable: “E. coli mutant pleiotropically defective in the export of secreted proteins” (1981) · 501 citations
- Ishita Mukerji, Fisk Professor of Natural Science, Emerita; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 28
Notable: “Where Plants Make Oxygen: a Structural Model for the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Manganese Cluster” (1993) · 424 citations
- Colin A. Smith, Associate Professor of Chemistry; Affiliated, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 26
Notable: “Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics” (2004) · 12,532 citations
- Teresita Padilla-Benavides, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 26
Notable: “Mechanisms of copper homeostasis in bacteria” (2013) · 297 citations
- Anthony A. Infante, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 25
Notable: “Chemistry of Muscle Contraction: Adenosine Triphosphate and Phosphorylcreatine as Energy Supplies for Single Contractions of Working Muscle” (1962) · 161 citations
- Amy MacQueen, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 22
Notable: “Synaptonemal Complex Assembly in C. elegans Is Dispensable for Loading Strand-Exchange Proteins but Critical for Proper Completion of Recombination” (2003) · 457 citations
- Erika A. Taylor, Chair of Chemistry; Professor; Affiliated, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 22
Notable: “Targeting a Novel Plasmodium falciparum Purine Recycling Pathway with Specific Immucillins” (2004) · 115 citations
- Rich Olson, Chair (as of 1/1/26); Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 20
Notable: “Mechanism of glutamate receptor desensitization” (2002) · 659 citations
- Robert P. Lane, Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 16
Notable: “Odorant receptor expressed sequence tags demonstrate olfactory expression of over 400 genes, extensive alternate splicing and unequal expression levels” (2003) · 134 citations
- Scott G. Holmes, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 14
Notable: “Transcriptional silencing in yeast is associated with reduced nucleosome acetylation.” (1993) · 793 citations
- Oriana Fisher, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 14
Notable: “Caspase-1 causes truncation and aggregation of the Parkinson’s disease-associated protein α-synuclein” (2016) · 266 citations
- Max Baymiller, Visiting Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry h-index 3
Notable: “Stress Granules as Causes and Consequences of Translation Suppression” (2023) · 36 citations
- Brenda Nallely Santos Ocampo, Visiting Scholar, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (Affiliated)
- Cori Anderson, Associate Professor of the Practice, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Francis W. Starr, Professor of Physics; Affiliated, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
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.