Where: Building 9 Lecture hall 1
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Description
Lecture by Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE
Oliver Hobert is a Professor in the Columbia University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and holds an Interdisciplinary Faculty position in the Department of Systems Biology. His laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms responsible for generating the remarkable diversity of cell types found in the nervous system. Using C. Elegans as a model system, they have revealed the regulatory mechanisms that control terminal neuronal identity and demonstrated that these mechanisms are conserved in chordates. They also used this knowledge to reprogram the identity of heterologous cell types to become specific neuron types. The lab’s other interests include the origins of asymmetrical neuronal differentiation along the left/right axis, the molecular mechanisms of neural system plasticity, and the conservation and evolution of neuronal gene expression programs. His lab has also developed a number of tools to analyze whole-genome sequence data.
Session chaired by Christian Froekjaer-Jensen.
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Oliver Hobert
Dr. Oliver Hobert is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Medical Center. He also is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He did his graduate work with Gerhard Krauss at the University of Bayreuth and Axel Ullrich at the Max Planck Insitute for Biochemistry in Germany and did his postdoc with Gary Ruvkun at Harvard Medical School on Boston. He has been on the faculty at Columbia University since 1999. He is a recipient of the Mossman Award, the Jacob Javits Award and is an elected fellow of the AAAS.
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