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| ==Research Interests==
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| Thousands of functional RNA molecules exist in the human genome and do not encode protein
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| sequences. We are just now beginning to understand how the diversity, structural complexity, and
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| plasticity of regulatory RNAs help to drive evolution, development, and cellular differentiation. Indeed,
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| it is the union of these non-coding RNAs with the capacity and efficiency of protein molecules that
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| collectively serves to orchestrate and expand the complexity of an organism.
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| Our research group applies macromolecular crystallography and NMR techniques to understand
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| how RNA and protein (ribonucleoprotein (RNP)) complexes regulate gene expression. Protein-RNA
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| recognition events are central to biology and misregulation of these interactions leads to human disease
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| and oncogenesis. A key to understanding RNP biological function is having knowledge of how they
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| assemble and are structured three-dimensionally.
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