Dr. Peng Mao is an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in New York. He is a member of the Stony Brook Cancer Center and faculty in the Department of Pathology. His laboratory studies genome instability by focusing on DNA damage formation and cellular DNA repair mechanisms in yeast and human cells. Studies in the Mao lab aim to understand the interplay between DNA damage and repair at the molecular and genomic levels, and how the imbalance between DNA damage and repair impacts mutations and human carcinogenesis.