Researcher Background
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, WashU Medicine
Training
- 2017 - 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Education
- 2017: PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Research & Selected Publications
Research Interest
My lab works on understanding the molecular basis for how intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) carry out cellular functions, and how this goes wrong in disease. Given almost every cancer-associated protein contains larger IDRs, this is a rich area for us in terms of relating molecular biophysics to human disease. Our goal is to enable the mechanistic interpretation of mutations in IDRs in the context of cancer – i.e. how and why do mutations cause disordered regions to misfunction.
Research Publications