Prof. Michael Hampsey Rutgers University, USA

Michael Hampsey is a native of the Finger Lakes region of New York state. He earned his BS degree in chemistry at the State University of New York at Geneseo and PhD in biochemistry at Purdue University. Following postdoctoral training in yeast genetics at the University of Rochester he was... read moreon the faculty at Louisiana State University Medical School in Shreveport. He is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University. His laboratory studies the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotic organisms, with a specific focus on transcription of protein-encoding genes by RNA polymerase II (Pol II).