Joel Eissenberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research
Mechanisms of gene activation and gene silencing as well as aspects of transcriptional regulation using Drosophila melanogaster.
Research Interests
Research in my lab concerns four aspects of transcriptional regulation: histone biotinylation and gene expression; transcriptional activation and chromatin remodeling; RNA polymerase elongation factors and gene regulation; and heterochromatin and gene regulation. We use the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model to study mechanisms of gene activation and gene silencing.
Publications
Recent
More than Meets the Eye: Eye Color and Alcoholism
Eissenberg JC
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Tying up loose ends: telomeres, genomic instability and lamins
Gonzalo S and Eissenberg JC
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Different Pathways to the Lysosome: Sorting out Alternatives
Hasanagic M, Waheed A and Eissenberg JC
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The lysosomal enzyme receptor protein (LERP) is not essential, but is implicated in
lysosomal function in Drosophila melanogaster
Hasanagic M, van Meel E, Luan S, Aurora R, Kornfeld S and Eissenberg JC
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Epigenetics: modifying the genetic blueprint
Eissenberg JC
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