Dr. Michael Hebert is a professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. He received a BS in Biology and Cytogenetics at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, GA, and a PhD in Biology and Molecular Genetics at Georgia State University.

Dr. Hebert’s research interests center around diseases which disrupt the functional organization of the nucleus adversely affecting ribonucleoprotein maturation. The ribonucleoproteins include small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), small Cajal body-specific ribonucleoproteins (scaRNPs) and telomerase, and the biogenesis of these ribonucleoproteins is altered in certain genetic diseases.