DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Clifford Stains, Assistant Professor
Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication
and
Department of Chemistry
409D Hamilton Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0304 United States
cstains2@unl.edu

Research Interests:
Our laboratory conducts research at the interface of chemistry and biology. We are actively developing strategies for labeling proteins with fluorescent molecules as well as controlling biological processes with precise spatial and temporal resolution. These efforts are supported by a combination of multidisciplinary approaches including protein evolution, synthesis and molecular biology. We are particularly interested in applications pertaining to cell motility and signaling. Towards these goals we are: 1) Developing turn-on fluorescence labels for interrogating protein dynamics, 2) Using split-protein reassembly to control cellular function and 3) Engineering inherently fluorescent proteins.