Michael Poirier
Michael G. Poirier, a United States biophysicist, is a professor at Ohio State University in the Physics and Chemistry & Biochemistry departments. He earned a BS in physics from Truman State University in 1995 and a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002, advised by John F. Marko. His doctoral work studied micromechanical biochemical aspects of mitotic chromosome elasticity and structure.
Poirier joined Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 2006, was promoted to associate professor in 2012, and became a full professor in 2016. He has published extensively in biophysics. Notable papers include “Post-Translational Modifications of Histones That Influence Nucleosome Dynamics” (co-authored with Gregory D. Bowman) and “Basic helix-loop-helix pioneer factors interact with the histone octamer to invade nucleosomes and generate nucleosome-depleted regions.”
In 2020 he received the Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award from OSU’s College of Engineering, and in 2024 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research group’s page is listed on Ohio State’s site.
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