DR. JUSTIN COURCELLE
Justin Courcelle's research lab focuses upon the fundamental "rules" which operate to maintain genomic stability in the cell. During cellular replication, whether in bacterial or human cells, each chromosome is processively replicated in its exact linear order until the precise point when the genomic template has been duplicated. As a cancer biologist, he is interested in how this fundamentally conserved process is regulated and maintained. Through these studies, he also hopes to understand the molecular events which can lead this normally faithful process of duplication to sometimes become less than perfect.