REU Research Areas

After the first week students will focus on individual research projects in one of the following laboratories:

Scott Briggs - Histone methylation
Clint Chapple - Phenylpropanoid pathway, regulation of lignin synthesis in plants
Brian Dilkes - Plant biochemistry, protein analysis using natural variation, genetics
Natalia Dudareva - Plant molecular biology, biochemistry of aromatic compounds
James Forney - Protein sumoylation, protozoa
Barbara Golden - Catalysis: RNA/protein
Humaira Gowher - Regulation of DNA methylation in development and disease
Mark Hall - Regulation of the cell cycle by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis; protein mass spectrometry
Ann Kirchmaier - Histone modifications, gene silencing
Jeremy Lohman - Biochemistry of natural product biosynthetic enzymes
Andrew Mesecar - Mechanisms and function of therapeutic enzymes and proteins
Joseph Ogas - Chromatin remodeling proteins, cell differentiation
Sujith Puthiyaveetil - Genetic and molecular control of photosynthetic light utilization
Kevin Solomon - Synthetic biology; fungal genetics and biotechnology
W. Andy Tao - Proteomics, mass spectrometry
Elizabeth Tran - RNA helicases and post-transcriptional gene regulation
Vikki Weake - Histone modifications in cell differentiation, neurobiology

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