Research Lecture at NOBEL FORUM
18 February, kl. 16.30
Free admission
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, Professor of Molecular Genetics
Dept. of Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.erasmusmc.nl/
Title: “Maintaining Nature’s Perfection: the impact of DNA repair on sustained health”
Jan Hoeijmakers joined the Dept. of Genetics of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1981 to work on DNA repair. His team succeeded in cloning the first of many subsequent human DNA-repair genes allowing elucidation of the reaction mechanism of nucleotide excision repair, discovered the strong evolutionary conservation of DNA repair, resolved the basis of a variety of enigmatic human repair syndromes and identified a new class of ‘basal transcription disorders’. His laboratory generated a comprehensive series of mouse DNA repair mutants, strikingly mimicking the corresponding human syndromes, which provided detailed insight into the complex etiology of human repair diseases.
Host: Nico Dantuma
CMB, Karolinska Institutet
Tel. 08-524 873; nico.dantuma@ki.se
http://www.cmb.ki.se/research/dantuma/index.html
Contact: Tatiana Goriatcheva
Nobelkansliet, Nobel Forum,
Tel. 08-524 87805, tatiana.goriatcheva@nobel.se