Regular biography
Laurie A. Boyer is a Fellow in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering and serves as Co-Undergraduate Officer. Her research focuses on gene regulatory mechanisms driving cardiac cell fate and how faulty regulation impacts regeneration and disease. She investigates how DNA is packaged into chromatin and how ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers modify this packaging to control lineage commitment. Her work combines genomic, genetic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches to model the 3D architecture of the heart and understand regulatory circuits in heart development and disease.
Scholar-generated biography
Laurie A. Boyer is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in chromatin, gene regulation, genomics, stem cells, and heart development. Her research explores the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular differentiation and lineage commitment, with a focus on epigenetic regulation and chromatin remodeling. Her work includes studies on the role of Polycomb complexes in repressing developmental regulators, the function of long noncoding RNAs in cardiovascular lineage commitment, and the dynamic epigenetic regulation of cardiac development. Boyer's research integrates genomic and epigenomic approaches to understand how gene regulatory networks control stem cell fate and tissue-specific gene expression.