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 …