Responsibilities include: preparation of solutions, preparation of bacterial cultures, preparation of and sterilization of glassware, reagents and supplies.

The major project in the laboratory is to characterize the functional significance of Sp1 phosphorylation in the cellular response to DNA damage, including effects on DNA repair, apoptosis, chromatin structure. Experimental approaches include: protein isolation, phosphorylation mapping, identification of interacting proteins, confocal microscopy, cloning and mutagenesis.