报告题目:V(D)J recombination and Limitless Antigen Receptors
报告人:杨 薇 院士
主持人:李 磊 教授
时 间:2023年11月23日(周四)下午4点
地 点:校友楼紫金港厅
报告人简介:
Professor Wei Yang received her doctorate degree from Columbia University in 1991. Her postdoctoral training was at Yale University with Dr. Thomas A. Steitzat, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. She joined the NIH in 1995 as an independent Investigator and currently holds the Distinguished Investigator position in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, NIH.
Dr. Yang was elected a Member of National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2013 and Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2015. Among the many prestigious awards, she is the recipient of the Bea Singer Young Investigator Award (GRC, 2002), the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin award (The Protein Society, 2011), and Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry (ASBMB, 2017). She also held adjunct Professorship at Johns Hopkins University.
Her research interests include Mechanisms of DNA repair, replication and recombination, macromolecular assemblies, structure and enzyme catalysis, ATP in molecular motion, recognition and signaling.