Karla Neugebauer, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology; Director, Yale Center for RNA Science and MedicineYale University
Karla Neugebauer holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University and a PhD in Neuroscience from UCSF. She began working on RNA during her postdoc with Mark Roth at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 12 years at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, her lab studied the 3D organization of the cell nucleus and RNA metabolismin vivo by combining imaging, genomics, and RNA sequencing strategies. In 2013, she moved to the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, where she is Director of the Center for RNA Science and Medicine. Her lab is known for long read sequencing of nascent RNA for the purpose of analyzing co-transcriptional splicing and other applications.