Susan Baserga

Susan Baserga, the William H. Fleming, M.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of genetics and of therapeutic radiology at Yale School of Medicine, has a long-standing interest in fundamental aspects of ribosome biogenesis, the nucleolus, human diseases of making ribosomes (ribosomopathies), and on the impact of ribosome biogenesis on cell growth, cell division, and cancer. Her laboratory uses a wide array of biochemical, genetic, and biophysical techniques to study the process and regulation of ribosome biogenesis, and utilizes model systems including yeast, mammalian cells, zebrafish, and frogs (Xenopus tropicalis).