Structure of the Nuclear Pore Complex

A public seminar by the Picchione Visiting Scholar
Dr. Andre Hoelz
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Biographical summary: Dr. Hoelz is a structural biologist, biochemist and chemist with expertise in determining structures of macromolecules. Dr. Hoelz graduate from the University in Freiburg with a degree in chemistry and earned his Ph.D. in the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Rockefeller University. Helater became a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Gunter Bloebel (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1999), later rising toResearch Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University. He is an Investigator at the Heritage Medical Research Institute, a Faculty Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Faculty Member of F1000 Prime. His work has been highlighted by the Argonne National Laboratory six times and he has won numerous awards for Teaching and Scholarship, including the54th Mallinckrodt Scholar Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Kimmel Scholar Award and Albert Wyrick V Scholar Award. His work has been published and highlighted in top tier journals including Cell, Molecular Cell, Science and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

Date: Wednesday, June 15th, 4:00 p.m.

Location: Theatre A, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College St. (Halifax)
or via Microsoft Teams

All are welcome to attend

Supported by Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation,
co-sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology