Jarosław Marszałek (Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG, Poland)
Speaker: Prof. Jarosław Marszałek (Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG, Poland)
Talk: Evolution from Modern to Functional Synthesis
Time: Saturday 13th July 2013, 9:20
Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2013, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Kładki 24
Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School
Jarosław Marszałek, biographical note
Jaroslaw Marszalek is Tenured Professor at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk. He leads Laboratory of Evolutionary Biochemistry. The main focus of his research is the role of molecular chaperones of Hsp70 system in essential mitochondrial processes such as biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters containing proteins and maintenance and propagation of mitochondrial genomes. He studies the role of Hsp70s in these processes from functional, structural and evolutionary perspective. He teaches Molecular Evolution. Prof. Marszalek is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.