Stephen Rader

Biodiversity/Ecology | Health Sciences | Biomedical | Chemistry | Health | RNA, RNA biochemistry, pre-mRNA splicing, splicing evolution, transcriptomics, Cyanidioschyzon merolae, algae, extremophiles, biotechnology

Professor Rader received his B.A. with Distinction from Swarthmore College in Biology and Chemistry. He carried out a Ph.D. in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dr. David Agard at the University of California, San Francisco. His postdoctoral research into the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Christine Guthrie at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been employed at UNBC since 2003.