6/17/2025
Within cells there exists a fine balance between survival and death. One of the earliest steps in the development of cancer is the ability of a cell to escape death.…
6/17/2025
My laboratory focuses on understanding the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms involved in the regulation of normal hematopoiesis and hematologic malignancies. The ultimate goal of our research is to identify new…
6/17/2025
My laboratory studies how nuclear transport and signal transduction control the compartmentalization and activity of transcription factors, particularly in the context of prostate cancer. A major focus of these studies…
6/17/2025
Transcriptional silencing Understanding how chromatin structure influences DNA-mediated processes has become a fundamental problem in cellular biology. Chromatin is known to influence the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression, DNA replication, DNA…
6/17/2025
Defects in chromosome segregation can generate aneuploidy, a condition that is found in almost all human tumors and is the major cause of miscarriages and birth defects. The complex process…
6/17/2025
The Tang laboratory applies a wide range of approaches such as live-cell imaging, single-cell genomics, and biochemistry to study the mechanisms of complex genome rearrangements in cancers, developmental disorders, and…
6/17/2025
The long-term goal of our research is to provide an experimental foundation for the general treatment of infectious diseases through use of heteropolymer (HP)-sensitized human erythrocytes (RBCs). We have prepared…
6/17/2025
Our research focus is to understand the structure and function of unusual DNA sequences in living cells, and how these sequences cause genome instability and lead to human diseases. Human…
6/17/2025
The genomic DNA of eukaryotes is packaged into chromatin through a fundamental repeating unit known as the nucleosome. In this chromatin environment, our genomic DNA is constantly exposed to a…
6/17/2025
Analysis of the role of TGIFs during development. TGIF proteins are transcriptional repressors, which regulate TGFβ signaling and have been suggested to repress retinoid regulated gene expression. Mutations in human TGIF…
