The Insco Lab investigates how aberrant RNA and defects in nuclear RNA surveillance drive oncogenesis, with an emphasis on melanoma. We use zebrafish models, patient datasets, and mechanistic assays in human melanoma cell lines to define clinically...
The Walt lab pioneered the use of microwell arrays for ultra-sensitive biomarker detection and analysis, such as proteins and microRNAs. The technique, known as Single Molecule Arrays (Simoa), is based on digital enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)...
Our research will integrate organic chemistry, chemical biology, and cancer biology to develop covalent compounds that allow chemical rescue of somatic mutations in cancer currently deemed “undruggable”. Somatic mutations, particularly in proto-oncogenes...
The Abudayyeh-Gootenberg lab is focused on the understanding and engineering of programmability in biology. These programmable systems, inspired by natural diversity, provide precise control over genomes, transcriptomes, and cellular identity, and are...
Gene expression control is fundamental to all biological systems and is primarily mediated by transcription factors (TFs) that bind specific DNA sequences. This control is quantitative—approximately 50% reductions in TF levels cause rare disorders, while...
The Tsvetkov Lab investigates how metal homeostasis and metabolic regulation intersect to control cell fate, with a particular focus on copper biology and mitochondrial metabolism. We combine high-throughput chemical-genomic approaches with molecular and...
The Mancias Lab, located at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is focused on the study of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC is one of the most vexing problems in cancer with 5-year overall survival rates of 13%, thus there is a strong need for...
We study how Epstein-Barr virus causes nearly 1% of all human cancers and also serves as the major viral trigger for autoimmune diseases, in particular multiple sclerosis.
A fascinating and incompletely understood aspect of EBV pathogenesis is that it...
We are interested in the fundamental mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past century-plus, research has revealed specific proteins that misfold and are deposited in neurodegeneration, and recent discoveries have...
Our lab studies the molecular and cellular basis of novel organismic physiology and behavior. We emphasize curiosity-driven science and exploration, using comparative approaches featuring a range of unusual and specialized organisms that are uniquely...
