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Erin Hammonds

Erin Hammonds

Graduate Student

Locations

  • Biochemistry

Contact Information

Biography

Mentor: Emma Morrison, PhD
Year in IDP: 1st
Previous Education: BS, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2019

Research Interests

I’m currently interested in chromatin packaging via phase separation on the level of the nucleosome core particle (NCP). More specifically, I’m interested in how post translation modifications (PTMs) of histone tails tune NCP phase separation.

Publications

Hammonds, E.F., Harwig, M., Paintsil, E.A., Tillison, E.A., Hill, R.B., *Morrison, E.A. Histone H3 and H4 tails play an important role in nucleosome phase separation. Journal of Biophysical Chemistry. 2022

Hammonds, E.F. and *Morrison E.M. Reconstitution of Nucleosome Core Particles from Recombinant Histones and DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology. Submitted