Ithaca College

With the official retirement of Vicki Cameron, it brings us great pleasure to announce the arrival of our newest faculty member, Maki Inada.  Maki is a molecular biologist who is interested in understanding how genes are turned on and off.  She has been studying an unusual mechanism of gene regulation that is associated with some of the most highly conserved or preserved regions in the human genome among vertebrates. She uses both experimental and computational methods to dissect the molecular details of this mode of gene regulation.  This work was published in 2007 in Nature.

Before coming to IC, Maki received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, and most recently has been a senior research associate and lecturer at Cornell University where she developed a research-based laboratory course for undergraduates.  She has also been advising a multidisciplinary team of students who are collaborating on a project to submit for the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition at MIT.  Maki is also an underwater hockey enthusiast and coach of the New York Underwater Hockey Club!