Gregory Bowman, professor of biophysics, joined the Johns Hopkins Department of Biophysics in 2005 where his group’s research focuses on the structure and mechanisms of chromatin remodelers. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University where he studied actin binding proteins and an enterotoxin from rotavirus using X-ray crystallography. In his postdoctoral research at the University of California Berkeley, Bowman focused on structural biology where his structure of the pentameric RFC clamp loader bound to the trimeric PCNA sliding clamp suggested how DNA stimulated ATP hydrolysis and release of the clamp.