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Jill Murray, Mentor
Molecular Biology

Brian Truong, McNair Scholar

Jill Murray completed a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and investigated the role of molybdenum enzymes in organic nitrate biotransformation to nitric oxide. Following her work at Queen’s, she worked in Ottawa at the National Research Council of Canada studying membrane-protein interactions using atomic force microscopy. A chemistry Ph.D. student at the UO since spring 2003, she is a member of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Andy Berglung’s lab, where she studies RNA splicing. Specifically, her research is focused on understanding how introns are recognized and spliced. Currently, she is studying novel intronic motifs important for the recognition and splicing of a subset of human introns.