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Roger Kornberg is a Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to the field of gene regulation and the control of transcription. His current research focuses on the discovery of molecular machines involved in transcription and the determination of their structures and functions within the cellular context. Notable achievements include the discovery of the human homolog of the yeast Mediator complex, which plays a critical role in gene regulation by processing inputs for the transcription machinery. He has also accomplished the structure determination of RNA polymerase II and the entire transcription initiation complex using advanced techniques like X-ray crystallography and two-dimensional protein crystallography. His work emphasizes the structure-function relationships of chromatin and the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional control within living cells.
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