Bruce Bowler

Bruce Bowler, Professor & Director of CBSD

Bruce Bowler joined the University of Montana in 2006 as a Professor of Chemistry and a member of the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.

He received his Ph. D. degree in 1986 with Stephen J. Lippard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  From 1986 to 1989, he was a Medical Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Harry Gray and Jack Richards at the California Institute of Technology.

From 1989 to 2006 he was a professor of chemistry at the University of Denver.

Dr. Bowler is a physical biochemist with interests in protein folding, the conformational restraints that specify the protein folding code, and protein dynamics as applied to the conformational changes that mediate the function of cytochrome c in apoptosis.  Dr. Bowler is also the Director of the Biochemistry Program.

Research Interests

Research in the Bowler lab focuses on two areas: protein folding and the relationship between protein conformational dynamics and function.

He is also working as Principal Investigator of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Montana

Faculty – College of Humanities and Sciences / Chemistry and Biochemistry – University Of Montana (umt.edu)