Andres Leschziner, Ph.D.
Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Professor, Molecular Biology
Andres E. Leschziner, Ph.D, is a professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He is interested in understanding the role of macromolecular dynamics in biological function.
His research group uses cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to obtain structures of macromolecules and biophysical, biochemical and cell biological techniques to test structure-based hypotheses about their functions. The group focuses on cytoskeletal motors, ATP-dependent nucleosome remodeling complexes and the Parkinson’s Disease-related protein LRRK2.
Andres was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to Canada during college, where he received a BSc in biology from McGill University. He obtained a PhD in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University, working in the labs of Nigel Grindley and Tom Steitz. After a post-doctoral fellowship with Eva Nogales at the University of California, Berkeley, Andres joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where he was assistant and associate professor. In 2015, Dr. Leschziner was recruited to UC San Diego.
