Background pattern of a brain with neural connections
Andres Leschziner

Andres Leschziner

Co-PI (Core Leadership)

University of California, San Diego

Andres is a Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Section of Molecular Biology at the University of California San Diego. For his PhD he studied structure-function of DNA recombination in bacteria at Yale University under the supervision of Nigel Grindley and Tom Steitz. He then joined the group of Eva Nogales at Berkeley to learn cryo-EM for his postdoctoral training. Andres was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2009.

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