[bioundgrd] Monday 12/11 -Biology Colloquium -Dr. Tyler Jacks

[Kerry Jenkins]

Biology Colloquium
Monday, December 11, 2006

Dr. Tyler Jacks
MIT Center for Cancer Research
"Creating Cancer (and Trying to Cure it)"

32-123 Stata Center Auditorium
4pm (refreshments at 3:30)
Hosted by Dr. Phillip Sharp

Dr. Jacks is the Director for the Center for Cancer Research, he is  
also the David H. Koch Professor of Biology, and an Investigator for  
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  He earned his Ph.D. in 1988 at  
the University of California, San Francisco.

The Jacks laboratory is interested in the genetic events that  
contribute to the development of cancer. The focus of their research  
is a series of mouse strains engineered to carry mutations in genes  
known to be involved in human cancer. Using conventional and  
conditional loss-of-function and gain-of-function mutations in  
various tumor suppressor genes as well as the K-ras oncogene, they  
have constructed mouse models of lung cancer, astrocytoma,  
endometroid ovarian cancer, retinoblastoma, and tumors of the  
peripheral nervous system. They also study the effects of these  
mutations on normal embryonic development and use cells derived from  
mutant animals to study the function of these genes in cell culture  
models.

Jacks

Biology Headquarters

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://mit.edu/biology/www/



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