Dr. Bulger has secondary appointments in the departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Wilmot Cancer Center. Research Interests: Dr. Bulger is interested in the interplay between tissue-specific gene expression and large-scale patterns of chromatin structure, as well as mechanisms by which enhancers and locus control regions (LCRs) mediate gene activation over large genomic distances. He addresses these questions using genes up-regulated or specifically expressed during late erythroid differentiation, including the beta-globin genes, as models