Prof. Dr. Brian C. Freeman

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietBiochemie,Allgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung
Keywordsmolecular chaperones, transcription, telomere biology

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtUrbana
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Johannes BuchnerDepartment Chemie, Technische Universität München, Garching
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.05.2011

Programm(e)

2011Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Freeman is an internationally recognized biochemist who has made important contributions on the roles and mechanisms of proteins that protect our cells, the so-called heat shock proteins. He has made seminal discoveries from the early recognition of some heat shock proteins serving as molecular chaperones for protein folding, to more recent insights on the roles of molecular chaperones in coordinating the dynamic of gene expression and genome stability. During his stay in Germany, he will expand his studies on the effects of molecular chaperones with DNA-associated proteins by incorporating biophysical approaches to gain more rigorous mechanistic insights.