William Montfort
Professor
Biosciences West, Room 524A
Preferred Method of Contact: Email
Degrees and Appointments
- Ph.D. 1985, University of Texas, Austin
Specialties: Biophysics, Metabolism, Signaling, and Regulation, Protein and Membrane Biochemistry, Structural Biology
Research Description
My group determines the atomic structures of proteins and seeks to understand how protein structure gives rise to protein function – both in vitro and in vivo. The problems we study have at their heart a fundamental structure-function question but also address questions of importance to human health. Our approaches include X-ray crystallography, transient kinetic measurements, spectroscopy, protein expression, molecular genetics, mouse models in cancer and related techniques and approaches.