Who are we and what do we do?

Our Work Alternative splicing is a fascinating phenomenon where a single pre-mRNA can be spliced into multiple mRNA isoforms. We are developing and applying parallel methods such as microarrays and high throughput screening to understand RNA splicing.


Yuta Komai and Suesan Pazeky	Studying telomerase ribonucleoprotein in malaria parasite.


Natalya Spivak	Small molecule screening for growth inhibition in malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.


Lori Phillips, Guillaume Jospin, Gibron Kury, and Oscar Crispin	Identifying chemicals that inhibit splicing in yeast

Denny Huynh, Georgeann O'Brien, Christine Preston, Jeremy Mason-Herr	Alternative splicing and nonsense mediated decay

Neli Brod, Aaron Shapiro, Agustin Morales, Alexis Rojas, Candra Lancaster	SARS S2M motif

Tim Sterne-Weiler and Jonathan Deans	Malaria genome browser

Mario Giovacchini and Laurnen Jean Sefton	Structure, Expression, and Function of Malaria Intron Debranching Enzyme

Kausik Chakrabarti	_______ Postdoc in Ares lab

Previous Students	Work of HURL students prior to 2005

Advisory Committee	Our distinguished advisory committee