Lab Members

Steve got his undergraduate degree in Biochemical Sciences summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1984. His PhD thesis on the RNA polymerase II initiation complex was done in the lab of Phil Sharp at MIT.  In 1990, he established his own lab as a Fellow at the Whitehead Institute.  He moved to Harvard Medical School in 1994, where he has been a full professor since 2002.  When not doing science, he enjoys playing and listening to music, gardening, and traveling.
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Urmi earned her PhD from Rutgers University. Her current project is titled 'Regulation of transcription by the mRNA cap methyltransferase'. She enjoys cooking, reading, listening to music, and teaching science.

Robin did her undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins, and earned her PhD from MIT where she studied learning and memory in Drosophila.

Madhura got both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Microbiology and Biophysics at the University of Calcutta, where she worked at the Bose Institute. She then moved to Germany for her PhD at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University, where she used single-molecule FRET to study nucleosomes and linker histones.

Mohammed got his BS at MIT, where he worked on transcription condensates with Ibrahim Cisse, and then got a Master's degree at University of Michigan.  

Brynn worked in the lab as Harvard undergraduate and is spending a gap year expanding her thesis work into a publication. She will be starting medical school in 2025.

Jongcheol did his PhD at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea. He is generally interested in molecular mechanisms in eukaryotic transcription and is now working on transcription activator-coactivator dynamics in transcription. And he likes to play almost all board games!

James was a biochemistry major at the University of Bristol in the UK. He then did his PhD at the Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with Terrence Strick, using magnetic tweezers to study R-loop formation during transcription and DNA repair.