Areas of Research in Molecular Biology and Genetics

• Processing mechanisms of pre-mRNA and rRNA
• Development of genomic and proteomic tools for gene discovery and analysis
• Developmental regulation and function of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in Drosophila and mammalian systems
• Molecular rearrangements occurring during the biogenesis of ribosomes in yeast
• Evolution of developmental mechanisms using gene regulatory networks (GRNs)