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Laurie Boyer is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also serves as the Co-Undergraduate Officer. Her research investigates the gene regulatory mechanisms that drive cardiac cell fate and how faulty regulation impacts regeneration and disease. Boyer's work focuses on determining how DNA is packaged within chromatin and how ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers modify this packaging to control lineage commitment. She applies genetic, genomic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches, both in vitro and in vivo. Ongoing efforts in her lab utilize tissue engineering to model the three-dimensional architecture of the heart, which ultimately allows for a systems-level quantitative understanding of the regulatory circuits that promote normal heart development and how faulty regulation can lead to disease.