Presented By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
MCDB Connell Memorial Lecture> Phase separation in cell physiology and disease
Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Annual lecture funded by an endowment from the family of Priscilla Connell, a renowned nature photographer.
Prof. Dr. Anthony Hyman is Director and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, and an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was born May 27, 1962 in Haifa, Israel and is a citizen of the UK, Israel and Germany. In 1984, he received his BSc first class in Zoology from the University College in London, where he worked as research assistant in 1981. From 1985 to 1987 he wrote his PhD on “The establishment of division axes in early C.elegans embryos” under the supervision of Dr. John White at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC in Cambridge, England. From 1988-1992 he carried out his postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Tim Mitchison at UCSF. In 1993, he became a Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, before he moved to Dresden in 1999 as one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), where he remains a Director and Group Leader today. Dr. Hyman has received numerous awards.
Prof. Dr. Anthony Hyman is Director and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, and an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was born May 27, 1962 in Haifa, Israel and is a citizen of the UK, Israel and Germany. In 1984, he received his BSc first class in Zoology from the University College in London, where he worked as research assistant in 1981. From 1985 to 1987 he wrote his PhD on “The establishment of division axes in early C.elegans embryos” under the supervision of Dr. John White at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC in Cambridge, England. From 1988-1992 he carried out his postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Tim Mitchison at UCSF. In 1993, he became a Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, before he moved to Dresden in 1999 as one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), where he remains a Director and Group Leader today. Dr. Hyman has received numerous awards.
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