#  Bryan Tsutomu Harada 

2015 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

 

 

 



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**Dissertation Title:** Single molecule FRET studies of reverse transcription and chromatin remodeling **PhD Dissertation Advisor:**  Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology For my PhD I was interested in applying single molecule fluorescence techniques to study the function and regulation of molecular motor enzymes. My work focused on two systems: 1) studying how RNA structure and dynamics regulate the activity of HIV reverse transcriptase, and 2) understanding how SWI/SNF-family enzymes disrupt protein-DNA contacts during chromatin remodeling.

 

 

 





 

 

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