Song Tan

Song Tan studied physics as an undergraduate at Cornell University (1985) before pursuing his PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology as a Marshall Scholar (1989). He continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow and project leader under Tim Richmond at the ETH-Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Dr. Tan joined the BMB faculty in 1998 and was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 2001. Dr. Tan’s laboratory investigates how chromatin enzymes and factors interact with their nucleosome substrates using biochemical and structural approaches. In 2020 I was appointed as holder of the Verne M. Willaman Chair in Molecular Biology. Biophysics, Biochemistry, Enzymology, Gene Regulation, Structural Biology

[2023] Our paper describing the structure of the SIRT6 histone acetylase/nucleosome complex is published in Science Advances (press release). [2023] Our paper describing the molecular mechanism for the pioneering activity of the Cbf1 yeast transcription factor is published in Molecular Cell (press release).