Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology; Director, Biology Teaching Lab
M.S., 1979 (Biochemistry), Kharkov University, Ukraine; Ph.D., 1985 (Molecular Biology), Institute of Molecular Biology, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Research Interests:

Gene function and mechanisms of gene regulation during Drosophila development.

Affiliations:

American Association for Advancement of Science.

Fellowships/Honors:

Fellowship at Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Fellowship at Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.

Publications

• The zinc-finger protein Zelda is a key activator of the early zygotic genome in Drosophila.
  Nature
  Liang HL, Nien CY, Liu HY, Metzstein MM, Kirov N, Rushlow C
  
  

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