Alexandra wins Seed Award from Brown University's OVPR
Alexandra together with structural biologist colleague, Prof. Gerwald Jogl, wins Seed Award to establish electron cryo-microscopy at...
Our paper on Mfd translocation is out in Cell!
The results of our four-year collaboration with physicist and HHMI investigator Michelle Wang (Cornell University) are out in Cell! Using...


Former lab undergraduate, Sarah Perelman, sends news ...
Alexandra's first undergraduate and Honors Thesis student in the lab, Sarah Perelman, sends greetings at the start of her medical studies...
The Deaconescu lab presents at the UTRA Symposium @ Brown!
Lab undergraduates, Aryana and Valerie present their team research at the Annual Research Symposium in beautiful Sayles Hall! Check out...
Alexandra is chairing the session on Gene Expression at the 2017 Boston Bacterial Meeting
The meeting has a long tradition and it's now at its 23rd edition. The gathering included hundreds of bacteriologists, with exciting...
Former lab undergraduate wins accolades!
Ben Doughty, former undergraduate researcher in the lab wins a Brown Senior Biology Prize! Congratulations, Ben and good luck as you...
The Deaconescu lab is awarded an NIH R01 grant!
Thank you for supporting our work!
Both our undergraduates are awarded UTRA fellowships this summer!
Congratulations, Aryana and Valerie!
The lab is growing!
We are excited to welcome two new undergraduate researchers, Aryana and Valerie! They will join the transcription-repair coupling team.
Maggie's and Alexandra's review is in press
The review focuses on developments in the field of transcription-coupled DNA repair and will be included in a special issue of...














