Samuel Butcher

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Department of Biochemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research in my laboratory is focused on understanding how RNA molecules regulate gene expression. We aim to understand the three-dimensional structure, function and dynamics of RNA. RNA plays a central role in many biologically important processes, including protein synthesis, pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing, chromosome maintenance and viral replication. RNA molecules directly regulate gene expression inside the cell in a number of fascinating ways.

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