Previous Seminars
ICaMB Seminar - Prof Mohan Balasubramanian
- Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
- Start: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:00:00 GMT
Cytokinesis in vitro and in vivo
Mohan Balasubramanian graduated in chemistry from Madras University in India and pursued a post-graduate program in microbiology and Biotechnology in Baroda, India. He carried out his Doctoral research at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he initiated his study of cell division in fission yeast. Following post-doctoral research at Vanderbilt University, USA, where he furthered his study of cell division, he joined the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology Singapore in 1997 and the Temasek LifeSciences Laboratory Singapore in 2002. At the University of Warwick, he has been working on actomyosin ring formation and tension generation in eukaryotic cytokinesis. He is a Wellcome Trust Investigator.
Research Interests
- Cell Cycle Control
- Cytokinesis
- Mitosis
- Morphogenesis
- Cell Physiology
- Yeast Genetics