2010 Mendel Lecture
Dr Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
We are delighted to announce that Dr Susan Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give the Mendel Lecture at the Genetics Society Autumn meeting on 12 November 2010 at the Royal Society in London.
Dr Lindquist’s work has focused on problems of protein folding, including the exploration of multiple facets of the chaperone system.
She has pursued the mechanisms implicated in the ability of prions to exist in self-perpetuating structural states with altered functions, and also investigated how compromise of Hsp90 activity can influence the phenotypic manifestation of mutations, including some involved in cancers and others associated with development of fungal drug resistance.
Current efforts are also directed to defining ways in which protein misfolding leading to neurodegeneration may be prevented or even reversed.
Dr Lindquist is a Member of the national Academy of Sciences and currently a Howard Hughes Investigator; she has received many additional honours and accolades. She joins a list of illustrious Genetics Society Mendel Lecturers going back to 1958.