Associate Professor
Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern

Laura obtained her PhD in Chemical Biology with Tom Wandless at Stanford University, where she developed one of the first commercialized degron technologies. She was a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow in Chromatin Biology with David Allis at The Rockefeller University. She joined the faculty at UTSW in 2015.

The Banaszynski Lab studies epigenetic contributions to gene expression and genome regulation in mammalian systems. Her research focuses on the dynamic regulation of chromatin states at both coding and non-coding regions including the influence of histone variant incorporation on histone post-translational modification states. Her long-term goal is to improve our understanding of the chromatin-based mechanisms regulating fundamental cell-fate decisions in pluripotency and differentiation that are essential to our understanding of developmental processes.

Research in the Banaszynski Lab is funded by the NIH, CPRIT, ACS, NETRF, the Forbeck Foundation, and the Welch Foundation.