Professor Sir John Gurdon did his undergraduate work in Zoology in the University of Oxford and later a one-year postdoctoral position at CalTech. He returned to Oxford and became a university lecturer in embryology. In 1971 he moved to the MRC molecular biology laboratory in Cambridge, continuing his work on Amphibian developmental biology. In 1983 he moved to the University of Cambridge as John Humphrey Plummer professor of cell biology. He co-founded a research institute of developmental and cancer biology with Professor Laskey as co-chairman. He remained as chairman of this institute until 2002.
During his career Professor Gurdon has concentrated on nuclear transplantation in the frog Xenopus. He has also carried out a range of experiments with this material, discovering the value of messenger RNA microinjection, mechanisms of response to morphogen gradients and, most recently, mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming by Xenopus oocytes and eggs. Professor Gurdon served as Master of Magdalene College Cambridge from 1995 to 2002.
Professor Gurdon has received various recognitions, including, most recently, the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Science and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012.
Professor Gurdon will review the history of nuclear reprogramming of cells by various procedures and discuss what is known about the mechanisms involved.
Event Manager: Mitchell Piercey
Phone: (02) 6201 9462
Professor Sir John Gurdon did his undergraduate work in Zoology in the University of Oxford and later a one-year postdoctoral position at CalTech. He returned to Oxford and became a university lecturer in embryology. In 1971 he moved to the MRC molecular biology laboratory in Cambridge, continuing his work on Amphibian developmental biology. In 1983 he moved to the University of Cambridge as John Humphrey Plummer professor of cell biology. He co-founded a research institute of developmental and cancer biology with Professor Laskey as co-chairman. He remained as chairman of this institute until 2002.
During his career Professor Gurdon has concentrated on nuclear transplantation in the frog Xenopus. He has also carried out a range of experiments with this material, discovering the value of messenger RNA microinjection, mechanisms of response to morphogen gradients and, most recently, mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming by Xenopus oocytes and eggs. Professor Gurdon served as Master of Magdalene College Cambridge from 1995 to 2002.
Professor Gurdon has received various recognitions, including, most recently, the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Science and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012.
Professor Gurdon will review the history of nuclear reprogramming of cells by various procedures and discuss what is known about the mechanisms involved.
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Phone: (02) 6201 9462
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