Honorary Lecture Viesturs Simanis – Cold fission: how to split a cell at room temperature
28-09-202328-09-2023With: Prof. Viesturs Simanis
Bio:
I was born in London, UK. I did my BA Degree in Biochemistry at Imperial College, London, passing with First class honours, and was awarded the Governor’s Prize. I did my PhD with Prof David Lane at Imperial College, studying cellular sequences that bind T antigen in SV40-transformed cells. My postdoctoral studies were with Prof. Paul Nurse (ICRF, London), working on cell cycle control, using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model. I was appointed chercheur associé at ISREC in 1989, and then Associate Professor at EPFL in 2006. My lab studies cell cycle control, with a focus on how the cell cycle is coordinated during mitotic division and meiosis.
Place and room: SV 1717
Category: Inaugural lectures – Honorary Lecture