Principal Investigator
Dr. Jennifer Doudna is a member of the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at UC Berkeley, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, along with the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Biographical Highlights:
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, the University of California, Berkeley (2003)
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry, the University of California, Berkeley (2003)
- Faculty, Biophysics Graduate Group, the University of California, Berkeley (2003)
- Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (2003)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (2002)
- Member, Board of Trustees, Pomona College (2001)
- American Chemical Society Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2001)
- R. B. Woodward Visiting Professor, Harvard University (2000-2001)
- Alan T. Waterman Award (2000)
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997)
- Searle Scholar, Kinship Foundation’s Searle Scholars Program (1996)
- Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University (1994-2002)
- Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science, University of Colorado (1991-1994, Dr. Thomas R. Cech)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (1989-1991, Dr. Jack W. Szostak)
- Ph.D. Harvard University (1989, Dr. Jack W. Szostak)
- B.A. Pomona College (1985, Dr. Sharon M. Panasenko)
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Operations Manager
Lab Safety Officer
Bel is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Doudna Lab interested in chromatin editing and RNA mechanisms. Originally from Spain, she moved to the UK to study Biochemistry and Music at Imperial College London and at the Royal College of Music. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she studied DNA structure function under the supervision of Prof. Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Dr. David Tannahill. Bel discovered a new molecular mechanism for the critical MYC oncogene, in which DNA structure orchestrates transcriptional programmes and dictates chromatin architecture to regulate gene expression. Previously, she conducted research in biophysics at Harvard University with Dr. Howard C. Berg, and worked on microfluidics and the development of novel technologies.
Contacting the Doudna Team
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