The Wright Lab

Our lab focuses on understanding why muscle diseases arise.  We use a wide variety of structural biology techniques to study the structure, function, and dynamics of individual proteins that are altered in such diseases.  Our scientific goal is to better understand the basic mechanisms employed by cells that allow them to simultaneously be strong and flexible.  

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This is also a teaching lab.  New undergraduates learn the technical and academic skills necessary to launch their own scientific careers.  We encourage those outside our lab family to learn more about structural biology.  This link provides real structural biology data sets.  Also included are instructions and links to all the programs you will need for processing and analysis.