Dr. Phil Hieter joins the Biotechnology Laboratory
In 1997, Dr. Phil Hieter joins the Biotechnology Laboratory. The Hieter lab develops and applies genetic and biochemical methodologies in the model organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers yeast), to better understand the molecular components required for chromosome transmission. The overarching goal of the Hieter lab is to relate the work with yeast to human cancer.