Generally, the Gene Regulatory Evolution Lab, GRE Lab, is interested in understanding how gene regulatory networks for stress responses evolve and how it may have contributed to species' adaptation to their environment. To do this we study a group of evolutionarily related, yet ecologically diverse species of yeast, including the well-known eukaryotic model organism, S. cerevisiae, and a related commensal and opportunistic pathogen, C. glabrata. I am interested in protein-protein interactions and how those interactions have evolved at the molecular level. Currently I am investigating nucleosome-transcription factor interactions and how transcription factors gain nucleosome-depleting ability, ie Pioneer Factors.

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Genetics T32 appointment 2023-2024 and 2024-2025