He attended State University of New York, Albany as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of expertise include gene expression, RNA interference, Molecular Biology, gene and genome regulation by RNAi and small RNAs. He has been awarded the National Institute of Health’s NICHD K99/R00 Career Transition Award, the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Award. Professor Lau’s course offerings include Molecular Biology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Ribonucleic Acids, and Epigenetics. (nlau@brandeis.edu)