Price research

The Price Lab is committed to defining the basic mechanisms that regulate transcription by RNA polymerase II. We apply both biochemical, molecular, and global bioinformatics tools to understand how transcription is controlled in the context of chromatin. Most of our current work is focused on human cells and the viruses that infect them.

Learn more about research in the Price Lab on the current projects page.

Recent Publications

Santana JF, Collins GS, Parida M, Luse DS, Price DH (2022) Differential dependencies of human RNA polymerase II promoters on TBP, TAF1, TFIIB and XPB. Nucleic Acids Res. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac678.

Ball CB, Li M, Parida M, Hu Q, Ince D, Collins GS, Meier JL, and Price DH (2022) Human Cytomegalovirus IE2 Both Activates and Represses Initiation and Modulates Elongation in a Context-Dependent Manner mBio doi: 10.1128/mbio.00337-22.

Spector BM, Parida M, Li M, Ball CB, Meier JL, Luse DS, Price DH (2022) Differences in RNA polymerase II complexes and their interactions with surrounding chromatin on human and cytomegalovirus genomes Nat Commun. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29739-x.

Ball CB, Parida M, Li M, Spector BM, Suarez GA, Meier JL, Price DH (2022) Human Cytomegalovirus Infection Elicits Global Changes in Host Transcription by RNA Polymerases I, II, and III, Viruses, doi: 10.3390/v14040779.

Ball CB, Parida M, Santana JF, Spector BM, Suarez GA, Price DH, Nuclear export restricts Gdown1 to a mitotic function. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Jan 20:gkac015. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac015.

Li M, Hu Q, Collins GS, Parida M, Ball C.B., Price DH, and Meier,JL (2021) Cytomegalovirus Late Transcription Factor Target Sequence Diversity Orchestrates Viral Early to Late Transcription PLoS Pathog. 17(8):e1009796. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009796.

Luse DS Parida M, Spector BM, Nilson KA, and Price DH (2020) A Unified View of the Sequence and Functional Organization of the Human RNA Polymerase II Promoter, Nucleic Acids Res. 48(14):7767-7785. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa531.

Li M, Ball CB, Hu Q, Luse DS, Price DH, and Meier J. (2020) Human cytomegalovirus IE2 drives transcription initiation from a select subset of late infection viral promoters by host RNA polymerase II. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Apr 6;16(4):e1008402. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008402.

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Events

Improving Health Outcomes Through Preventing Childhood Obesity Conference  promotional image

Improving Health Outcomes Through Preventing Childhood Obesity Conference

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 8:30am to 4:30pm
Virtual
Join physicians, nurses, public health educators, researchers, teachers, social workers and dietitians in a conversation about the prevention of, and the implications of, childhood obesity!

Join physicians, nurses, public health educators, researchers, teachers, social workers and dietitians in a conversation about the prevention of, and the implications of, childhood obesity!

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Jason Duskey, PhD

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 11:30am
Virtual

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Jason Duskey, PhD
Department of Life Sciences
University of Modena
Modena, Italy

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

Zoom Link Info:
Meeting ID: 967 3140 7256
Passcode: 584174

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BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Spring 2026, these will occur in 2117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Jan. 20: open

Jan. 27: open

Feb. 3: open

Feb. 10: open

Feb. 17: Tyler Woodward, PhD Candidate, 4th Year...