Welcoming Susan Martinis

Effective July 16, Dr. Susan Martinis was appointed as Interim Department Head for Biochemistry upon the departure of Dr. Colin Wraight after more than five years of extraordinary service to the Department of Biochemistry and School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. A search for a new Department Head will begin during the fall semester. Professor Martinis earned her Ph.D. on this campus in 1990, and completed postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her central research interests include RNA structure and function and tRNA synthetases.