How do specialized egg and sperm cells come together to generate a new organism? Following fertilization, how is gene expression regulated to direct development and differentiation? These fundamental questions drive the research of the Harrison Lab.
Lab Profile by Christi Binkley, CMB Graduate Student What relates the fields of synthetic biology and transcriptional mechanisms? Answer: gene regulation. The Landick lab studies prokaryotic gene regulation to answer basic and applied research questions, using a variety of biochemical and genetic approaches. While the detailed nature of RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the foundational focus …
We’ve had a busy year, and we’re excited to share some of the highlights with you! A big thank you to all who have donated their time, money, and stories to the CMB Program. You can find the 2019 Alumni Newsletter here.
Top, members of the Newmark lab. Bottom left, members of the lab at a local elementary school talking about planarians. Bottom right, lab mascot, Schmidty, aliquoting cells. Story by Rosa Mejia Sanchez and Umair Khan; originally appeared in the 2018 Alumni Newsletter Phil Newmark’s lab uses planarians to answer fundamental questions about regeneration, stem cells, …