Hello there!

I am a Research Scientist in the College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

My RIT website

My research as molecular biologist lies at the junction of molecular evolution, genetics and epigenetics in the field of gene silencing/activation in metazoans. I seek to address the mechanisms that eukaryotic cells can deploy in order to repress foreign genetic invasions, like transposable elements (TEs) or foreign genes acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HTG). To this point my work has focused on he role of epigenetics. Epigenetics can be defined as the study of biological mechanisms that are able to regulate gene expression and function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence. These mechanisms include covalent modification of histones, DNA methylation and non-coding RNAs pathways.

Fernando Rodriguez, Ph.D.
College of Science | Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Orange Hall 1311 | Rochester NY 14623
frvsbi@rit.edu