Robert Kingston, Ph.D.
Chief of Service Massachusetts General Hospital |
Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School |
Associate Member Broad Institute |
PhD UC Berkeley 1981 |
Research Interests
Research Narrative
What we do: This lab is interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of how eukaryotic enzymes can modify chromatin. One focused approach is to isolate chromatin-modifying proteins and to test such complexes in functional assays, with the thesis that assay outcomes will inform the in vivo function of these protien machines. Another important goal is to understand how long-range chromatin interactions are established in the cell nucleus, and this effort is leading to new strategies towards defining such interactions in vivo.