Laurie A. Boyer, Ph.D.
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- Title
- Irvin and Helen Sizer Career Development Associate Professor of Biology
- Department
- Department of Biology
- Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Address
-
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 68-230 - City, State, ZIP
- Cambridge, MA 2139
- Phone
- (617) 324-3335
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://biology.mit.edu/people/laurie_boyer
- Research field
- Developmental Biology, Genetics
- Award year
- 2008
Research
The overall goal of my lab is to understand how chromatin structure influences gene expression programs and ultimately cell fate and how failure to establish proper chromatin states can contribute to disease. To address these questions, we use a combination of genomic, genetic, biochemical and cell biological tools to precisely characterize the factors involved in regulating chromatin structure, to determine how these factors are recruited to genomic sites, and to investigate how these different regulatory pathways cooperate to organize the genome. We are particularly interested in how specific chromosomal domains are assembled and propagated in ES cells, adult stem cells, and somatic cells. Discovering how gene expression programs are regulated is required to improve our understanding of development and disease, and for realizing the therapeutic potential of stem cells.
Scholar Keywords
2008 Search Pew Scholars
- Gilad Barnea, Ph.D.
- Laurie A. Boyer, Ph.D.
- Antonio J. Giraldez, Ph.D.
- Aaron D. Gitler, Ph.D.
- Felicia D. Goodrum, Ph.D.
- Richard I. Gregory, Ph.D.
- Jianping Jin, Ph.D.
- Anatol C. Kreitzer, Ph.D.
- Deborah J. Lenschow, M.D., Ph.D.
- Ian J. MacRae, Ph.D.
- Bryce E. Nickels, Ph.D.
- Susannah Rankin, Ph.D.
- John Rawls, Ph.D.
- Seth M. Rubin, Ph.D.
- Holger Sondermann, Ph.D.
- Michael A. Sutton, Ph.D.
- Benjamin R. tenOever, Ph.D.
- Leor S. Weinberger, Ph.D.
- Julia Zeitlinger, Ph.D.
- Hui Zong, Ph.D.