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George Lisi is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry (MCB) Graduate Program at Brown University. His research focuses on biochemistry and structural biology, specifically enzyme complexes, to understand their function in disease. Lisi's laboratory employs a variety of biophysical and biochemical tools to generate detailed molecular-level fingerprints of enzyme structures and characterize dynamic processes that are essential in biological signal propagation. Lisi earned his Bachelor of Science from Fairfield University in 2009 and his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 2014, where he studied under Dean Wilcox and Ekaterina Pletneva, focusing on the allosteric thermodynamic and spectroscopic properties of zinc-iron-containing proteins. He completed his postdoctoral work in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University under Pat Loria, delving into enzyme structure and dynamics, and allosteric regulation using NMR techniques. Since joining Brown University in September 2018, he has been affiliated with both the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry and the Department of Chemistry, and is an investigator at the Giuliani RNA Center. His research is aimed at understanding complex interactions in cellular environments that contribute to significant diseases, with hopes of developing novel therapeutic strategies. Lisi's research interests include dynamic allostery, latent allostery, and protein dynamics involved in CRISPR technology, making significant contributions to the field of biochemistry.
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