Member Biography

Claire Walczak, Ph.D.
915 E. 3rd St.
Myers Hall 262
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-5919
Research Program Membership
Full member:
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Assistant Director of Research, IU School of Medicine
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Assistant Director of Research, Medical Sciences Program, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University at Bloomington
Adjunct Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Assistant Director for Education-Bloomington
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Walczak's research interests include:
Our lab is interested in the fundamental mechanisms that cells use to accurately distribute their genetic material to the two daughter cells. Defects in this process lead to aneuploidy and genomic instability, which are hallmarks of cancer. Using a combination of biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, genomics, and high resolution imaging techniques we ask fundamental questions about how cells maintain mitotic fidelity and how cell maintain proper ploidy.

Post-doctoral Fellowship - University of California, San Francisco, CA 1993-1998
Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1993