Congratulations to two of our Graduate Students Johanna Farkas and Polina Freitas who are co-first authors for a recent publication in Development!

"Transcriptional regulation is a tightly regulated, vital process. The transcription factor (TF) CREB1 controls ~25% of the mammalian transcriptome by binding the CRE sequence (TGACGTCA). DNA lesions within CRE modulate CREB1 binding negatively and positively."

"Transcriptional regulation is a tightly regulated, vital process. The transcription factor (TF) CREB1 controls ~25% of the mammalian transcriptome by binding the CRE sequence (TGACGTCA). DNA lesions within CRE modulate CREB1 binding negatively and positively."

"Kevin Gozzi, . . . fourth-year biology student is the co-first author of the [Chai] lab’s most recent publication, which centers on chemical signals that stimulate bacterial biofilm formation and the underlying mechanisms."–COS News Article by Gwendolyn Schanker, Journalism and Biology majors, 2018