Professor Margaret Kovach
I am a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. My primary research interest is in mammalian genomics: the identification and functional characterization of genes. In particular, I am interested in genome organization and chromatin structure and their influences on nuclear functions such as DNA replication, chromosome segregation and gene expression. Currently I have two projects that focus on gene regulatory effects and mechanisms involved in the molecular pathology of cancer and hereditary deafness. Recently I have begun a collaboration with the UTC Departments of Biology, Geology & and Environmental Science and Chemistry & Physics to investigate the molecular effects of e-cigarettes on human lung tissue.