The Wright Lab

Our lab focuses on understanding the molecular etiology of disease.  We use a wide variety of techniques to study the structure, function, and dynamics of individual proteins that are altered in both cancer and muscle disease.  The cytoskeleton- a network of proteins that give cells shape- is often implicated in both of these diseases.  In order to develop new and novel treatments of both cancer and muscle disease, we first need to characterize what the molecular problem is.  We then need to discern the molecular mechanism through which these atomic-sized problems lead to human diseases.  Last, we need to design treatments to fix this problem.  We work with each of these steps, with the end goal of creating new treatments.

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Our 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.