Mechanistic study of heart development: PKB/Akt signaling and beyond

Host: Philip Cohen

Venue: WTB-SR-1L2-110 ( Front Seminar Room) 

Bio:

Zhongzhou Yang has been a Professor and Principal Investigator at Nanjing University, China since 2005. Prior to that he spent six years at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland as a PhD student and postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Brian Hemmings FRS where he worked on the protein kinase now called AKT or PKB (protein kinase B). This protein kinase was first identified by Brian Hemmings in 1990 as an enzyme of then unknown function, which he called RAC (related to A and C kinase). Since returning to China, Zhongzhou has developed additional research interests in the fields of Heart Development & Function, Mouse Genetics, Disease Models and Developmental Biology. Zhongzhou is visiting Dundee after attending a Conference at the Royal Society of Edinburgh entitled “"Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy". Since Brian Hemmings was a postdoc in Philip Cohen’s lab from 1979-1982,  ZhongZhou is therefore one of the MRC-PPU’s scientific grandchildren!