Principle Investigator
M. Thomas Record, Jr.
Position title: Principal Investigator
Email:
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Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences
John D. Ferry Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., University of California-San Diego
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Research Staff
Irina Shkel
Position title: Assistant Scientist
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Departments: Biochemistry, Chemistry
Research Description: Thermodynamics of complex fluids, DNA and protein solutions. Methods of numerical and analytical analysis of experimental data in kinetics and thermodynamics.
Emily Zytkiewicz
Position title: Research Specialist
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Subgroup: Solutes
Research Description: Quantifying chemical interactions of polyols with protein functional groups in order to develop solute probes of biopolymer processes
Graduate Researchers
Max Rector
Position title: Graduate Student
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Program: Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB)
Subgroup: RNA polymerase
Research Description: Using solute probes (urea) to determine points of large structural shifts during initial transcription. Using FRET/PIFE to DNA wrapping/unwrapping during open complex formation and transcription initiation.
Undergraduate Researchers
Alexa Berens
Position title: Undergraduate
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Major(s): Biology
Subgroup: Solutes
Research Description: Studying the interactions between sugars and amides.
Lucia Breuer
Position title: Undergraduate
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Major: Biochemistry
Subgroup: RNA Polymerase
Tuhin Chatterjee
Position title: Undergraduate
Email:
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Majors: Biochemistry
Certificate in Data Science
Subgroup: RNA Polymerase
Hailey Rude
Position title: Undergraduate
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Major: Biology
Subgroup: DNA Transcription
Stephanie Ruzicka
Position title: Undergraduate
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Major(s): Biochemistry
Subgroup: Solutes