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Profil
| Derzeitige Stellung | Professor W-3 und Äquivalente |
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| Fachgebiet | Biochemie,Allgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung |
| Keywords | Mitosis, chromosome, centrosome, kinetochore, genome stability |
Aktuelle Kontaktadresse
| Land | USA |
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| Ort | Seattle |
| Universität/Institution | University of Washington |
| Institut/Abteilung | Department of Biochemistry |
Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Anthony A. Hyman | Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden |
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| Prof. Dr. Jonathon Howard | Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden |
| Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille | Biotechnologisches Zentrum, Institut für Biophysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden |
| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.09.2008 |
Programm(e)
| 2008 | Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Professor Davis is an international authority on mitosis, the process by which the duplicated chromosomes are segregated to the two daughter cells during cell division. She discovered that the calcium-binding protein calmodulin is essential for mitosis but does not need to bind calcium to perform its essential functions. More recently she is reconstituting the kinetochore and centrosome to understand how they drive assembly of the mitotic spindle. She also heads a multidisciplinary research group that develops new technologies to study protein organization. In Germany she plans to study the organization of the mitotic spindle in mammalian cells. |