Confirmed Speaker

Bill Theurkauf

Bill Theurkauf received his BA in Biochemistry from Brandeis University in 1980, and his PhD in Biochemistry from Brandeis in 1988. From 1988 to 1993 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, where he was supported by fellowships from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund and NIH. From 1993 to 1998, he was on the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In September 1998, Dr. Theurkauf joined the Program in Molecular Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical Center as an associate professor. He is currently a professor in the Program in Molecular Medicine, Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and Director of the Program in Cell and Developmental Dynamics. Work in the Theurkauf lab addresses the interplay between and genome integrity developmental progression in Drosophila, with a recent focus on small RNA function in transposon control and oogenesis.

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