Katsuhiko Murakami, Ph.D.
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Institution
- Pennsylvania State University
- Address
- 6 Althouse Laboratory
- City, State, ZIP
- University Park, PA 16802
- Phone
- (814) 865-2758
- [email protected]
- Website
- http://bmb.psu.edu/directory/kum14
- Research field
- Structural Biology
- Award year
- 2005
Research
Gene expression is fundamental to all organisms and studying how the genetic code is expressed in molecular terms is critical to cell development and understanding diseases. Our major contribution to biomedical research involves applying structural biology (X-ray crystallography) towards understanding how the genetic information is transcribed into RNA. My laboratory currently studies transcription in bacteriophage N4 and Archaea as model systems for single-subunit and cellular RNAPs, respectively.
Scholar Keywords
2005 Search Pew Scholars
- Gonçalo R. Abecasis, D.Phil.
- Stephen A. Baccus, Ph.D.
- Craig H. Bassing, Ph.D.
- Laura M. Calvi, M.D.
- Shane P. Crotty, Ph.D.
- Jenny E. Gumperz, Ph.D.
- Martin W. Hetzer, Ph.D.
- Karin M. Hoffmeister, M.D.
- Deborah A. Hogan, Ph.D.
- Soo-Kyung Lee, Ph.D.
- Katsuhiko Murakami, Ph.D.
- Franck Polleux, Ph.D.
- Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D.
- Lambertus van den Berg, Ph.D.
- Rachel I. Wilson, Ph.D.