Mechanisms of Centriole Assembly and Disassembly
The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture
Event Details
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- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Pierre Gönczy, Ph.D., professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Speaker bio(s)
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Understanding the organizing principles driving assembly and disassembly of cellular organelles is an important pursuit in biology. The centriole is an evolutionarily conserved microtubule-based organelle essential for the formation of flagella, cilia and centrosomes. The centriole exhibits a striking 9-fold radially symmetrical arrangement of microtubules organized around a likewise symmetrical cartwheel. Dr. Pierre Gönczy will discuss published and ongoing work aimed at deciphering the mechanisms governing centriole assembly and disassembly across systems.
Dr. Pierre Gönczy studied biology at the University of Geneva, before moving to The Rockefeller University, where he joined the laboratory of Steven DiNardo for his Ph.D. in developmental biology and molecular genetics in Drosophila, graduating in 1995. He then moved to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where he conducted post-doctoral work with Anthony Hyman on cell division and early embryonic development of C. elegans. He started his own laboratory in 2000 at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and has been a Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) since 2009.
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- Tri-Institutional