Mike
Jones
Yoshiki
Sasai
Jim
Smith
Gerald
H.
Thomsen
Naoto
Ueno
John
Wallingford
Akihito
Yamamoto |
Gerald H. Thomsen
Gerald Thomsen earned a dual
B.S. in marine biology and chemistry from the University of Tampa,
Florida (USA) and his Ph. D. in biochemistry and molecular biology
from The Rockefeller University (USA). He began his research
career in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
at Harvard University, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow
from 1989 to 1993 in the lab of Professor Doug Melton. He left
Cambridge in 1993 for an appointment as an assistant professor
in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, and in 1999 was promoted
to associate professor in the same institution, where he remains
at present. His research focuses on how members of the TGFβ family,
such as Vg1, nodals and BMPs, function to control differentiation
and growth of tissues, particularly those that form blood, muscle,
heart, nervous system and the head in the Xenopus embryo. Current focus at the molecular level is on the function of ubiquitin
ligases and TGFβ signal transduction regulators. |
