Faculty

Lu Bai

Email: lub15@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4824
Office Address: 206b Life Sciences Building
Title: Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Physics
Unit: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/bmb/people/lub15

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics
• Genomics
• Biophysics
• Biochemistry
• Enzymology
• Gene Regulation

About:

Dr. Bai is an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Physics at Penn State University. She received her PhD in biophysics from Cornell University (supervisor: Dr. Michelle Wang). For her thesis work, she combined single molecule experimental approaches with theoretical modeling to understand the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of a variety of biomolecules. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University (supervisors: Dr. Fred Cross and Dr. Eric Siggia), using cell-cycle genes as a model to understand how promoter architecture and nucleosome positioning regulate gene expression in single cells. Dr. Bai moved to the Penn State University as an assistant professor in 2012, and was promoted to associate professor in 2018. Besides her dual appointment at BMB and Physics, her group is also part of the Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, which provides a highly interactive environment for the study of chromatin and gene regulation.