Our lab seeks to understand structures, mechanisms, and regulation of bacterial transcription complexes and to identify, characterize, and develop small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial transcription for application as antituberculosis agents and broad-spectrum antibacterial agents. Our lab uses experimental approaches spanning structural biology, single-molecule biophysics, and drug discovery.
Program Faculty
- Richard H. Ebright
- Distinguished Professor
- Department: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Graduate Program(s): Biochemistry | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Drug Discovery, Gene regulation, Structural Biology
- Research Techniques: Atomic or Electron microscopy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Protein Structure / Crystallography, Transcriptomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, in vitro
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8484455179
- Email:
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- Waksman Institute of Microbiology
- Braun Building Wing, 2nd Floor
- 188 Frelinghuysen Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854
- Key Words: transcription, transcription initiation, transcription elongation, transcription termination, transcriptional regulation, antituberculosis drug discovery, antibacterial drug discovery
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