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Mario Halic, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Mario Halic, PhD

Structural Biology

MS 311, Room M6418

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678

Education

Diploma – University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (1999) PhD – Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2005) Postdoctoral Training – Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Honors & Awards

  • 2014  EMBO Young Investigator award
  • 2014  Cell 40 under 40 award
  • 2012  ERC starting grant
  • 2010   Charles King Trust Postdoctoral fellowship
  • 2007  EMBO Postdoctoral fellowship
  • 2006  Romer award, LMU Munich

Research Interests

  • Regulation of genome expression
  • Recognition and silencing of foreign genetic elements
  • Chromatin modifications that lead to silencing (cryo-EM)
  • Changes in chromatin structure induced by chromatin modifiers (cryo-EM)

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