Gene Expression & RNA Biology

Susan Baserga

The Baserga lab studies the role of the ribonucleoprotein and protein complexes involved in generating mature rRNAs, which are essential for the translation of proteins. 

Ron Breaker

The Breaker lab discovers and and studies ribozymes and riboswitches - RNA molecules that catalyze chemical reactions and control gene expression.

Nadya Dimitrova

The Dimitrova lab investigates the functions and mechanisms of action of long noncoding RNAs in the context of cancer. 

Luisa Escobar-Hoyos

The Escobar-Hoyos lab focuses on understanding how aberrant RNA splicing contributes to the maintenance, establishment, and impairment of anti-tumor immune response in tumors. 

Josh Gendron

The Gendron lab uses genetic and biochemical approaches to study the control of circadian rhythms, using Arabidopsis as a model system. 

Antonio Giraldez

The Giralez lab combines developmental biology and genomics to decode the mechanisms of gene regulation. 

Farren Isaacs

The Isaacs lab develops foundational technologies to enable cellular and genome engineering to understand and modify biological systems. 

Yannick Jacob

The Jacob lab studies the interplay between chromatin and genome stability using plants as model systems. 

Megan King

The King lab is interested in the fundamental mechanisms that control nuclear mechanics, dynamics, and quality control.

Smita Krishnaswamy

The Krishnaswamy lab develops representation-based learning and deep learning methods that enable exploratory analysis, scientific inference, and prediction from big biomedical datasets. 

Bluma Lesch

The Lesch lab uses both experimental genetics and computational genomics to study the intersection of evolution, developmental biology, and gene regulation. 

Jun Lu

The Lu lab is interested in noncoding and epigenetic regulation of hematopoeisis and cancer.

Sigrid Nachtergaele

The Nachtergaele lab works on numerous aspects of RNA-mediated regulation of cell signaling, with a current focus on chemical modifications on RNA. 

Stefania Nicoli

The Nicoli lab uses zebrafish to understand how small non-coding RNAs coordinate cardiovascular and neuronal development. 

James Noonan

The Noonan lab’s research program is focused on deciphering the role of gene regulatory changes in the evolution of uniquely human traits, and in the neurodevelopmental phenotype of autism. 

Valerie Reinke

The Reinke lab uses genomic approaches to investigate the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate the fate of germ cells.

Josien Van Wolfswinkel

The Van Wolfswinkel lab combines molecular, cell biological, genetic, proteomic, and computational methods to study the regulation of planarian pluripotent stem cells, with a particular interest in the regulatory roles of non-coding RNA in planarian stem cell biology. 

Günter Wagner

The Wagner lab is interested in gene regulation as it pertains to the origin of evolutionary novelties. 

Siyuan (Steven) Wang

Research in the Wang lab focuses on the development and application of state-of-the-art imaging-based omics approaches to understand the spatial organization of the mammalian genome and transcriptome.