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My lab started at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1981. I moved from Boston to Baylor College of Medicine in 1997, and from Houston to Berkeley in 2020 to join Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. I have been Chair of NST since July 2022. My research is focused on the family of hormone receptors called the nuclear receptors, which includes the steroid receptors and many other with more recently identified functions.

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I earned a B.S. in Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), PhD in Biophysics (University of Keele, UK - worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Source with Joan Bordas using SAXS (small angle X-ray scattering and cryo-EM to study tubulin assembly). I did my postdoc in biophysics at LBNL (solved the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography working with Ken Downing). In 1998 I joined UC Berkeley's MCB Department as an Assistant Professor and have been here ever since. I have served as Head of the Biophysics graduate program at Berkeley, Head of the MCB Undergraduate...

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