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Laura Rusche is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on chromatin structure, gene expression regulation, and evolutionary mechanisms in yeast. She investigates how sirtuins and heterochromatin proteins like Sir3 contribute to epigenetic control and respond to metabolic stress. Her work spans multiple yeast species to understand evolutionary adaptations in protein functions and transcriptional circuits.
Education: BS from Yale University (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), PhD from Johns Hopkins University (Biochemistry), and postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley.
Research Interests: Chromatin dynamics, sirtuin-mediated epigenetic regulation, gene duplication consequences, and fungal pathogen biology. Key projects include studying Sir2's role in NAD+ stress responses and the evolution of Sir3 from replication proteins.
Lab: The Rusche Lab explores centromere stability, heterochromatin formation in Candida species, and evolutionary genomics. Recent work highlights unique centromere structures in Candida auris and the functional divergence of sirtuins across yeasts.
