Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Biochemistry, 1989, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Biography
Dr. Jodi Vogel received her Ph.D. for her work on functions of the bacteriophage Mu repressor protein. She then moved to the Laboratory of Susan Lindquist at the University of Chicago where she elucidated the role of heat shock proteins in the regulation of mRNA splicing in a yeast model system. Dr. Vogel joined the Molecular Genetics Section in 1994 where she has focused on characterization of the varied roles of the cellular transcriptional coactivator HCF-1 in the control of Herpes Simplex Virus gene expression during the initiation of lytic infection and reactivation from latency.