PI BIO

Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, Strecker did his graduate studies in Toronto with Daniel Durocher, and moved to Boston for a postdoc at the Broad Institute with Feng Zhang.
 
Strecker joins us as an Assistant Molecular Biologist and Assistant Professor under the Genetics Department of HMS.  A main interest in his lab is to investigate diverse immune proteins throughout nature, including phage defense and CRISPR-Cas systems, with the long-term goal of using these basic discoveries to enable new programmable functions in biology.