Please join us for this instalment of the Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology Seminar Series, with Dr Andrea Musacchio (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund).
About the speaker
“We investigate the molecular basis of cell division in eukaryotes. We are concerned with different aspects of the process of cell division, with specific topics ranging from the organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton, and most notably the mitotic spindle to the organization of centromeres and kinetochores. Our primary interest is to unveil the molecular mechanisms that drive these processes, so to be able eventually to manipulate them meaningfully. Most of our projects combine biochemical reconstitution with biophysical investigations and cellular analyses, so to provide testable mechanism-based hypotheses that allow making significant forays into the unknown. For this, we foster a broad methodological portfolio, which now includes classical methods in structural biology, mass spectrometry, biochemistry and biophysics and cell culture.”