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My laboratory focuses on the motion, dynamics and mechanics of DNA roadblocks, how DNA motor proteins collide and navigate through roadblocks, and DNA topology during transcription and replication.
Michelle Dong Wang is a Chinese-American physicist who is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences at Cornell University. She is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research considers biomolecular motors and single molecule optical trapping techniques.
Dr. Michelle Wang is a James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, a Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wang is recognized for pioneering optical trapping techniques to study DNA mechanics and topology in ...
Sep 21, 2023 · My laboratory focuses on the motion, dynamics and mechanics of DNA roadblocks, how DNA motor proteins collide and navigate through roadblocks, and DNA topology during transcription and replication.
Wang and her team develop and use innovative real-time, single-molecule precision measurements to enable novel insights into the complex coordination of cellular machineries and the fundamental role of DNA mechanics and topology.
Sep 29, 2023 · The Biophysical Society has named physicist Michelle Wang a 2024 Society Fellow. Wang is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
Aug 9, 2021 · Nature Physics - The unit length of DNA is a base pair, which serves as a ruler for DNA compaction and processing, as Michelle Wang explains.
