She joined the MIT faculty in 1992 and her research is focused on the mechanisms and regulation of DNA transposition and protein chaperones.
[1][2] Tania Baker started her major research when she became a graduate student at Stanford University.
Baker eventually helped discover the sequential steps that each enzyme and protein performed in order to start DNA replication in vivo.
One aspect of some transposons that is important for research is that they can help bacteria exchange antibiotic resistance genes.
[2] Eventually, Baker left the National Institute of Health to work as an independent researcher at MIT.
The AAA+ family of unfoldases is in all organisms and plays an important role in maintaining which proteins are active within a cell.
They are important in ensuring that proteins are properly recycled so that cells do not constantly need new amino acids.