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David LV Bauer is a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute's RNA Virus Replication Laboratory. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at the City College of New York and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2009 to study at the University of Oxford. There, he conducted doctoral research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics under Kalim Mir, focusing on sequencing methodologies for single chromosomes using the then-nascent Solexa/Illumina technologies. Following this, he obtained a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship to further investigate biophysics with a focus on RNA polymerases utilizing single-molecule techniques to understand transcription initiation in bacteria. David has worked in Ervin Fodor's group at the Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford, where he studied influenza virus transcription, merging his interests in genomics and RNA. His research has investigated how viral RNA structure influences replication, transcription, and immune activation. David established his laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in 2020.
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