Administration
Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director, Kansas Vaccine Institute, Director, Higuchi Biosciences Center
Distinguished Professor Picking earned his PhD at the University of Kansas. His research interests include the use of specialized secretion systems by bacteria to communicate with mammalian cells, the mechanism of activation of the "type III secretion system" of Shigella flexneri, the general molecular mechanisms used by bacterial pathogens to cause disease in humans and how these can be targeted in vaccine development, comparative analysis of type III secrection systems from other bacterial pathogens, and protein structure-function relationships.
