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Andrew Paek, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, presents "Transcription Factor Phases and Kinase Waves: Exploring Cell Signaling in Space and Time".
Andrew Paek obtained his Ph.D. in Ted Weinert’s lab at the University of Arizona where he studied chromosome instability in budding yeast. He then did a postdoc in Galit Lahav’s lab in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. As a postdoc, Dr. Paek discovered a link between the dynamics of p53 accumulation and fractional killing of colon cancer cells in response to chemotherapy treatment. Dr. Paek is currently an Associate Professor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department at the University of Arizona. His lab is focused on how the p53 and FOXO transcription factors drive different cell outcomes in response to stress. In Addition, his lab collaboration with Curtis Thorne’s lab, has developed a 2D colonic monolayer system to study the role of signaling dynamics in spatial patterning of different cell types.
Host: Christi Abbate (ccabbate@ucdavis.edu)