Kim Nasmyth

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Kim Nasmyth

Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born October 18, 1952 in London , England ) is a British cell biologist and molecular geneticist . He is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford in Oxford , UK.

Life

Nasmyth attended Eton College and studied biology at the University of York in York , England. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1977 with the thesis “DNA replication in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe ” at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh in Scotland. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Benjamin D. Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle , Washington , and then as a Robertson Foundation fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor , New York . From 1982 to 1987 he was a research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge , United Kingdom . In 1988 he moved to the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna , Austria , which he took over in 1997. He also held an honorary professorship for molecular genetics at the University of Vienna . In 2005 Nasmyth was appointed professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford in Oxford , United Kingdom.

Act

Nasmyth has made special contributions to research into the regulation of mitosis . He characterized the anaphase promoting complex , with which mitotic cyclins are broken down, the cohesin complex, which connects the sister chromatids with one another before mitosis, and a new proteolytic mechanism, which quickly breaks the connection between the sister chromatids at the onset of mitosis. Nasmyth's work is of considerable importance for the understanding of chromosomal non-disjunction in cancer cells and in genetic disorders. Nasmyth's most important model organisms are yeasts .

Awards (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In dialogue: Kim Nasmyth and Arnold Schmidt (PDF, 196 kB) at the Bruno Kreisky Forum (kreisky-forum.org); Retrieved June 6, 2011
  2. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved June 6, 2011
  3. ↑ Kim Nasmyth at the Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); accessed on December 4, 2017
  4. ↑ prezenz.com: Fondation Louis-Jeantet - Lauréats. In: jeantet.ch. Retrieved February 6, 2016 (French).
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780–2010 (PDF, 93 kB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved June 6, 2011
  6. ↑ START and WITTGENSTEIN 1996–2000 (PDF, 4.2 MB); accessed on February 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kim A. Nasmyth at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (oeaw.at); accessed on April 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/msg/2006/1220/013.html
  9. ↑ Kim Nasmyth, Ph.D. at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 14, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Nasmyth, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasmyth, Kim A .; Nasmyth, Kim Ashley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cell biologist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England