By Julie McClure

The 2011 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fall Hill Day hosted nine investigators who live or work in the districts of representatives from the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, which allocates funding for the National Institutes of Health. The invited researchers, along with eight members of the Public Affairs Advisory Committee, met with more than 40 congressional offices to advocate for biomedical research.

Gerald Shadel  
Yale University School of Medicine 
Gerald Shadel’s research focuses on mechanisms that govern expression and maintenance of mitochondrial DNA, the requisite signaling pathways involved in regulating these processes, and how associated defects are involved in human disease and aging.

Malcolm Snead 
University of Southern California 
Malcolm Snead studies the control of biomineralization using structural biology approaches and interventional changes in gene structure via modifying the mouse genome.