Rebecca Voorhees
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
B.S., Yale University, 2007; M.Sc., 2007; Ph.D., MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 2011. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2016-17; Assistant Professor, 2017-25; Professor, 2025-; HMRI Investigator, 2017-2023; HHMI Hrabowski Scholar, 2023-.
Research Summary
The lab uses a combination of structural and functional techniques, including cryo-electron microscopy and protein biochemistry, to understand i) the molecular mechanism of protein biogenesis and ii) how proteins and mRNAs that fail at any step during this maturation process are recognized and degraded.
Phone:
626-395-1287
Office:
265 Broad Center for Biological Science (96)