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Is a professor in the departments of Molecular & Cell Biology,Physics, and Chemistry, as well as the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of Biophysics at University of California, Berkeley. He is also a biophysics faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Carlos Bustamante is interested in the dynamics and mechanochemical properties of molecular motors involved in transcription and translation. |
| In particular, his laboratory is investigating the physical basis of transcription regulation by the nucleosomal barrier. His laboratory is also interested in the process of protein folding and, more specifically, the cotranslational folding of nascent polypeptides. To this end, Bustamante and his team develop and apply novel methods of single-molecule manipulation and detection, such as optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, and single-molecule fluorescent microscopy. Carlos Bustamante is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. | |
