Control of Gene Expression

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, USA

EDUCATION:
PhD 1989, Harvard University
BA 1982, University of California-Santa Cruz
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Work in my lab is focused on two major topics:
1) mRNA degradation as a mechanism of translational control, and
2) biogenesis of the ribosomal subunits.

We use the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism to take advantage of multiple experimental approaches including genetics, genomics and proteomics, biochemistry and cell biology.