Brenton Graveley is a professor and chair of Genetics and Genome Sciences at UConn Health and is associate director of the UConn Institute for Systems Genomics. He is the Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Genetics and Developmental Biology.

Brent has studied RNA biology throughout his entire career. He performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder with David Prescott, his graduate studies at the University of Vermont with Greg Gilmartin, and his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University with Tom Maniatis. Brent has led large components of the ENCODE and modENCODE projects, studies the mechanisms of alternative splicing using genomic, genetic, and biochemical approaches, and collaborates extensively to investigate various aspects of RNA biology.