Timothy Bolger

Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Born and raised in Virginia, Dr. Bolger received his undergraduate degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, where he worked with Dr. Grace Gill on transcription. He then got his Ph.D. in Molecular Cancer Biology from Duke University, working with Dr. Tso-Pang Yao on the function and regulation of histone deacetylases. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Susan Wente at Vanderbilt University, where he focused on the functional connections between the gene expression processes of translation and mRNA nuclear export. Dr. Bolger then moved to the Southwest, opening his own lab as a faculty member at the University of Arizona in Tucson. However, the green and rain of Athens called him back to the Southeast and the University of Georgia in 2023. His wife, Molly, is also a faculty member at UGA, and they have three children, one dog, one cat, and three mice.