Rodney J. Rothstein PhD

Rodney Rothstein is a professor of genetics and development at Columbia University Medical Center. He is a pioneer in the use of recombination to alter genomes and has employed these methods to isolate novel genes involved in the maintenance of genome stability. He is also an expert in yeast genetics, which he uses as a model system for studying how cells respond to DNA alterations and for gaining a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in recombination.