Dr. Michelle Kudron

Biography

Michelle Kudron attended Smith College and received her AB degree in Biology in 2002. In 2001, she completed a summer internship in the laboratory of Celia Schiffer at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at UMASS Medical School, studying the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. After graduation, she returned to the Schiffer lab and the Knight Lab to work as a Research Laboratory Associate, uncovering the novel role of dimeric RecA in the assembly of nucleoprotein filaments in homologous recombination (Kudron et al., 2006). In 2003, she attended Yale University and earned her Ph.D. in Genetics in 2009 under the mentorship of Valerie Reinke, studying the role of C. elegans nucleostemin in regulating cell growth and proliferation and its impact on ribosome biogenesis (Kudron MM, Reinke V, 2008). After obtaining her doctorate, Michelle became interested in the role that transcription factors play at a tissue-specific level globally in C. elegans, pioneering a thorough examination of tissue-specific binding of the Rb/E2F pathway in vivo. She is a lead member of modERN (Model Organism Encyclopedia of Regulatory Networks), a multi-lab effort aimed at capturing genome-wide binding sites of transcription factors in both worm and fly models.

Research Interests