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Wolf Heyer, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, presents "The functions of BRCA2 in homologous recombination to maintain genomic stability: Implications for cancer predisposition and anti-cancer therapy".
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer is a German-American biologist with a life-long interest in the mechanism and regulation of DNA repair starting with his Ph.D. (University of Bern, 1985), where he trained with Jürg Kohli and the late Urs Leupold to study genome stability. As a Swiss National Science Foundation and Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Richard Kolodner, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (1986-1990) he received training in protein biochemistry. After starting his laboratory at the University of Bern in 1990, he was recruited to the University of California, Davis in 1997, where he is currently Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. His laboratory continues to use a combination of classical and molecular genetics and biochemistry to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of DNA repair, specifically homologous recombination and its regulation, using yeast as a lead model and human cells.
Host: Lisa Makhoul (lmakhoul@ucdavis.edu)