Nicolas Buchler

Associate Professor of Molecular Biomedical Sciences
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About Dr. Nicolas Buchler

Dr. Nicolas Buchler joined NC State University in July 2018 as part of the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program in Modeling the Living Embryo. His research focuses on understanding how the cell cycle interacts with metabolic rhythms, and how disruptions in these processes contribute to disease or lead to new biological functions. The lab primarily works with early-diverging fungi and yeasts, but they also collaborate with others to explore similar questions in various regulatory systems (e.g., circadian clocks) and organisms (e.g., animals and plants).

Dr. Buchler earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego before pursuing a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of Michigan, where he focused on protein structure and evolution. His postdoctoral work, first at UC San Diego and later at the Center for Studies in Physics & Biology at Rockefeller University, combined mathematical modeling with experimental work to understand how gene networks sense and respond to signals, store memories of past events, and schedule periodic processes like the cell cycle.

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