Penny Beuning

Penny Beuning

Chair and Professor

Expertise:

  • Chemical Biology And Biotechnology

About Penny Beuning

Dr. Beuning came to Northeastern in 2006 and was appointed Department Chair in 2020.

Dr. Beuning completed her doctorate at the University of Minnesota and conducted post-doctoral work at the University of Minnesota and MIT. She has been the recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, a Cottrell Scholar, an American Cancer Society Research Scholar and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, among other accolades. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Her research aims to determine how cells respond to DNA damage and maintain the accuracy of genetic information. As part of this work, she aims to develop DNA damage tolerance enzymes and DNA repair proteins as tools for biotechnology applications. Her lab also seeks to determine fundamental aspects of enzyme function that can be applied to protein engineering, focusing on enzymes involved in cellular metabolism.

Contact

Mailing Address:

102 HT (Hurtig Hall), Boston, MA 02115
Institutes, Labs & Research Centers
Beuning Lab
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Biochemistry

The Beuning laboratory at Northeastern is focused on understanding the structure-function-dynamics relationships of proteins and enzymes, with a particular focus on proteins involved in DNA metabolism and DNA damage tolerance.

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