Expertise

Research Projects:

  • Structure and mechanism of erythromycin resistance methyltransferases
  • Mechanisms and regulation of CRISPR-Cas interference
  • Structural biology of sulfur mobilization

Subject Area: Biochemistry.

Current Research

  • Structure and mechanism of RNA modification enzymes, RNA-protein interactions, X-ray crystallography
  • Methyltransferases that modify 23S ribosomal RNA to initiate antibiotic resistance
  • 6-methyl adenosine containing messenger RNA.

 

Communities
Chemistry
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2010
BS, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Chemistry, 2005