Michael A. McAlear
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Retired
BS McGill UniversityPHD McGill University
Michael A. McAlear
The McAlear lab's project is focused on understanding how cells respond to their environment by increasing or decreasing their capacity to produce proteins. Understanding the molecular mechanisms whereby cells turn on and off the machinery required for protein synthesis is vital for understanding how cells grow, divide, and divide abnormally including cancer. In particular, we have discovered that cells regulate gene expression, in part, by positioning a subset of the genes of individual regulons as immediate, adjacent gene pairs.
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