Cell Growth & Division

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

EDUCATION:
Nick Rhind studied math and biology as an undergraduate at Brown University. He went on to do his graduate work at UC Berkeley, working on the genetics of sex-determination in the round worm C. elegans. For his postdoctoral assignment, he moved to the Scripps Research Institute to study cell-cycle regulation in fission yeast with Paul Russell. There, he became interested in how and why cells regulate the cell cycle in response to DNA damage.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His own laboratory at UMass Medical School focusses on the regulation of DNA replication by DNA damage. This work has led to an interest in more general questions about the regulation of DNA replication and to a return to his mathematical roots.