Current Lab Members
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Craig PetersonAcademic BackgroundCraig Peterson received his BS from the University of Washington in 1983 and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow from 1988-1991, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1992, he joined the University of Massachusetts Medical School as a faculty member in the Program in Molecular Medicine. |
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Kimberly CrowleyOfficially I am the lab manager, but unofficially I am the Lab Mother! I do my best to help everyone in the lab with duties that range from pouring plates, making media and placing orders to helping purify proteins and many other things. I am also in charge of, and run, our Beckman XLI Analytical Ultracentrifuge. |
Current Students
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Salih Topal I am interested in how transcriptional activity of RNA Pol II is regulated by chromatin dynamics. Specifically, I work on H3K56 acetylation and dissecting down the mechanism behind H3K56 acetylation to regulate RNA Pol II occupancy. |
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Nate Gioacchini I am interested in how histone modifications and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes influence the structure of chromosome interaction domains (CIDs). My work utilizes biochemical approaches coupled with genome-wide chromatin confirmation (3C) assays. |
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Jiayi (Jason) Fan I’m interested in dissecting the function of INO80 family chromatin remodelers biochemically and biophysically. My research project involves using fluorescence-based techniques to probe in details the mechanism of SWR1 and INO80 complexes. |
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Current Postdocs
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