Dr Dayie received his BA (with honors) in Physics from Hamilton College and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University (Wagner). He performed postdoctoral studies in the Chemistry Department at MIT (Williamson) and Molecular Biology Department at The Scripps Research Institute (Williamson) where he was a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund postdoctoral fellow. For seven years he was an assistant staff scientist at the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic where he led a research group in RNA Biophysics. Dr. Dayie's experience in high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) spans more than 17 years. His current research interests include structure, interactions, dynamics, and function of RNA complexes involved in catalysis and gene regulation; chemical biological methods of labeling RNAs; and NMR methods development for large macromolecules.