Andrei Surguchov

Andrei Surguchov joined Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, as a faculty member in 1992, where he studied the mechanisms of the genetic control of lipid metabolism. At the University of Utah, his research interests were focused on cloning of new genes encoding retinal proteins. At Washington University, St. Louis, he studied molecular and cellular mechanisms of retinal degeneration. Currently, his research focuses on structure-function relationship of proteins involved in neurodegeneration and ocular diseases. Using different animal and cellular models, his laboratory is studying the role of naturally unfolded proteins, their transcriptional regulation, processing, and posttranslational modifications. Recently, he became interested in the role of micro-RNA in posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Other areas of research involve the studies of glia-neuron interaction in normal state and in pathology and the regulation of metalloproteinases.

Biography Updated on 24 February 2010

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