Control of Gene Expression

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

EDUCATION:
• BS Agricultural Chemistry, Biochemistry, National Taiwan University (1984)
• PhD Biochemistry, Molecular Virology, University of Rochester (1991)

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• 2000 Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholar, Case Western Reserve University
• 1996 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Pew Charitable Trust
• 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
• 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Aaron Diamond Foundation
• 1991 The Wallace O Fenn Award, University of Rochester

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My lab has been interested in understanding the mechanisms of transcription and gene regulation in eukaryotes using primarily cell-free systems reconstituted with purified gene-specific transcription factors, general cofactors, and components of the general transcription machinery to recapitulate transcriptional events in the test tubes.