Biography
Mentor: Emma Morrison, PhD
Year in IDP: 1st
Previous Education: BS, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2019
Year in IDP: 1st
Previous Education: BS, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2019
Research Interests
I’m currently interested in chromatin packaging via phase separation on the level of the nucleosome core particle (NCP). More specifically, I’m interested in how post translation modifications (PTMs) of histone tails tune NCP phase separation.
Publications
Hammonds, E.F., Harwig, M., Paintsil, E.A., Tillison, E.A., Hill, R.B., *Morrison, E.A. Histone H3 and H4 tails play an important role in nucleosome phase separation. Journal of Biophysical Chemistry. 2022
Hammonds, E.F. and *Morrison E.M. Reconstitution of Nucleosome Core Particles from Recombinant Histones and DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology. Submitted
Hammonds, E.F. and *Morrison E.M. Reconstitution of Nucleosome Core Particles from Recombinant Histones and DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology. Submitted