matthewkraushar

 Thanks for visiting! I majored in neuroscience during my undergraduate at Columbia University, where I worked in the lab of Brian McCabe on mRNA splicing at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction, and later with Chris Henderson on Spinal Muscular Atrophy in embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons. I then completed the Rutgers-Princeton Universities dual MD/PhD Program. My PhD in the lab of Mladen-Roko Rasin at Rutgers focused on RNA-binding proteins and ribosome regulation in neurodevelopment. I next pursued postdoctoral training in the structural biophysics lab of Christian Spahn at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, solving the structure of brain ribosomes with cryogenic electron microscopy. I started my lab at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in 2021, where we combine neuroscience, biochemistry, bioinformatics, and biophysics to shed light on nature’s grey matters.