Jerry Workman Ph.D.
Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
After graduating from University of Michigan with his Ph.D. from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Dr. Workman went on to join the laboratory of Dr. Robert Roeder at the Rockefeller University. Three years later he moved to Massachusetts General Hospital and subsequently to Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Kingston. In 1992 Dr. Workman joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and over the next 11 years, he moved from Assistant Professor to the Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry. Beginning in 1998 he also was an Associate Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2003 Dr. Workman resigned his position with HHMI and Penn State, and moved his laboratory to The Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. Here he continues to pursue research related to transcription regulation in eukaryotic chromatin. Dr. Workman serves on various boards and committees, including the NIH’s National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counselors and the Board of Reviewing Editor’s for Science. He recently completed his tenure as an editor for Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Talk Title: “Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription”