Structural basis of DNA replication and repair in human mitochondria
Speaker: dr Michał Szymański
Talk: Structural basis of DNA replication and repair in human mitochondria
Time: 13 January 2017, 10am
Venue: Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Abrahama 58
Category: Faculty seminar
Michal Roman Szymanski is a Research Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences from the University of Houston in 2007 working on structural and functional characterization of HMW1B, a membrane protein from Haemophilus influenzae. In 2011, he received his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas for the work on “Helicase initiated assembly of macromolecular machines involved in DNA replication and repair”. In 2012-13, as a Jeane B. Kempner Postdoctoral Fellow, he studied the assembly of E.coli primosome with Professor Wlodek M. Bujalowski. In 2013 he moved to the Pharmacology Department at UTMB to study the structural basis for human mitochondrial DNA replication and antiviral drug toxicity.