CÓRDOBA PAUL NURSE | The Nobel Prize in Medicine Paul Nurse visits the UCO to talk about the cell cycle

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The Nobel Prize in Medicine Paul Nurse visits the UCO to talk about the cell cycleCÓRDOBA

Paul Nurse is the British biochemist and cell biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001. The award, which he received along with researchers Timothy Hunt and LelandHartwell, recognizes his key discoveries in regulation of the cell cycle. Nurse, who currently directs one of the largest research centers in the world, the Francis Crick Institute, will speak about his research in Córdoba next Friday, April 5 at 12:30 p.m. in the Juan XXIII Assembly Hall of the Rabanales Campus of the University of Cordoba.

Nobel, who has focused his research on the control of the eukaryotic cell cycle using genetic and molecular biology approaches with simple unicellular eukaryotic fission yeast, will give a lecture on the control of the cell cycle within the seminars UCO Bio Research Seminars (UCO-BRS) organized by researchers from the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Genetics of the UCO.

A discovery, through the study of yeasts

In ‘Controlling the Cell Cycle’ Nurse will talk about how regulates the cell division cycle and about how, studying yeast, described the functions of the cdc2 gene, decisive in several phases, subsequently identifying the human homologous gene, CDK1. He will tell how recent work from his laboratory demonstrates that in fission yeast the entire cell cycle can be driven by a single CDK.

The researcher, who has also been a Knight of the British Crown since 1999, has dedicated much of his career to discovering how cells work, that is, how life works, and his experience can be an example for researchers from all areas when facing the research career, with its successes and frustrations. Nurse, from a working class family, began working before undertaking a Biochemistry Degree in Birmingham in 1967 where she discovered what he wanted to do with his life.

The interest in working with young people, the importance of interdisciplinarity and the need to challenge limits to advance in science are some of his arguments.

The conference on April 5 at 12:30 is open to the public, but prior reservation is required using this form.