EDUCATION:

• Ph.D.University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Postdoctoral Fellow. NCI Carcinogenesis Training Program, UT-ORGSBMS/ORNL
  Postdoctoral Fellow. American Cancer Society, UT-ORGSBMS/ORNL

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• I am interested in rare human genetic diseases and the mechanisms of their pathology. I am presently working with diseases that are caused by mutations in the bHLH transcription factor family, focusing on the TWIST subfamily and their functional and structural properties.

  I am a nucleic acid biochemist, with expertise in genetic and genomic analysis of both RNA and DNA. I have also worked with expression of recombinant proteins in E. coli and their purification and functional analysis. I currently am director of the Genomics Services at the UPR MSC RCMI Program. I also have expertise in the analysis of gene expression, mostly at the RNA level, and in transfection of mammalian cultured cells.

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