Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale University, 1997 - 2001

Molecular Biophysics Nucleic Acids Structural Biology

Molecular Biophysics Nucleic Acids Structural Biology

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