Stephen J. Elledge, Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Genetics at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for elucidating
how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to damage in their DNA and providing insights into the development and treatment of cancer.
In this weeks» edition of Nature, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, along with collaborators from the USA, Japan, Denmark and New Zealand report the discovery of a new group of Archaea, the Asgard archaea, which reveal important details on
how eukaryotic cells evolved their complexity.
Not exact matches
Zhang, by contrast, showed specifically
how the technique could be used in the more complex (
eukaryotic)
cells of rhododendrons, rodents, and humans.
Kim Orth of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has worked to elucidate the activity of bacterial virulence factors on the molecular level, providing insights into
how bacteria cause disease and
how eukaryotic host
cells signalin response to infection.
My research is framed within the Wellcome Trust consortium on the archaeal origins of
eukaryotic cell organization (http://evocyt.com/), which includes a diverse group of researchers studying the evolution of
eukaryotic machinery from different points of view — e.g.
how do specific cellular systems work in different lineages, and
how did that affect the origin of the
eukaryotic cell plan?