We're focused on understanding chromosome
segregation, but I think what we're doing
is really trying to understand basic mechanisms
of how cells make decisions and pass that
information on across generations using biochemistry,
cell biology and microscopy is techniques
to understand very basic principles of epigenetics.
Those basic principles are incredibly important
to developing new therapies and developing
new biomarkers for cancer and for disease
in general.
Our goal is to understand the basic biology
of the process in a way where we really understand
the mechanism of how epigenetic inheritance
is involved in chromosome segregation, but
that's not enough.
We want to understand how the mechanism is
misfunctioning in cancer so that we can identify
new targets for therapies.
