Hunt, Brendan
Brendan Hunt
Associate Professor
Entomology
Behavioral and evolutionary genetics and epigenetics of social insects.
Behavioral and evolutionary genetics and epigenetics of social insects.
Post-translational modification including protein acylation, fatty acid metabolism,
prostate stem cell, Src family kinases, prostate cancer, small molecular inhibitor.
Population epigenomics and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.
Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability.
Drug Development, Chemical Biology, Cancer Disease Mechanism, Epigenetics and Genetics, Histone Modifications, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Enzymology, and Biophysics.
We study CRISPR-Cas immune systems that protect prokaryotes from viruses and provide
powerful research tools for important biotechnology and biomedical applications.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology: DNA modification, homologous recombination
and the regulation of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei.
Developmental Regulation of Gene Expression; Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology.
Chromatin structure and function; Epigenetics; Eukaryotic genome stability; Histone H1.