Main Seminar Room,
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford,
South Parks Rd,
Oxford, OX1 3QU
Time
4.00 - 5.00 pm
Contact
Head of Department
head@bioch.ox.ac.uk
Professor Tom Rapoport, Professor of Cell Biology,
HHMI Investigator, Harvard Medical School
Mechanism of ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)
This year the Rodney Porter Memorial lecture will be given by Professor Tom Rapoport, Professor of Cell Biology, HHMI Investigator, Harvard Medical School
In January, 1995 Tom Rapoport joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School, arriving from the Max-Delbrück-Institute for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. He graduated with honors and earned his Ph.D. from Humboldt University in 1972. Immediately following this, Dr. Rapoport became an investigator of the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, which later became the Max-Delbrück-Institute. Since 1985, he has served as Professor of Cell Biology and group leader. In July of 1997 Tom was appointed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Rapoport is a member of the National Academies of the USA and Germany. He has received several awards.
