Speakers

Dirk Hockemeyer received his Ph D from Rockefeller University in New York before serving as a postdoctoral associate at the Whitehead Institute. He was named Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley in 2013. His lab is focused on establishing techniques for modeling of human diseases using genetically engineered human stem cell and mouse models. Key areas of interest are mechanisms of telomerase regulation in human stem cells, upon their differentiation and during tumor formation.