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Professor profile
Donald Rio
University of California, Berkeley
· Biology
The general interest of our laboratory is nucleic acid transactions
specifically
transposable DNA insertions have been linked to human disease gene mutations
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About
Regular biography
Donald Rio is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the Department of BIO. His research focuses on nucleic acid transactions, particularly the mechanisms of transposable DNA element mobilization and the regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing by RNA-binding proteins. His work explores the role of transposons in genome evolution and human disease, as well as the molecular processes underlying splicing regulation. Rio's laboratory combines biochemical, genetic, and structural approaches to study these phenomena, with current projects involving transposase function, splicing control, and the impact of splicing defects in neurodegenerative diseases.