WEHI Parkinson’s Disease Special Seminar hosted by Michael Lazarou and Runa Lindblom

Professor Ian Ganley

MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Scotland

Manipulating mitophagy – a therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s?

Davis Auditorium (speaker online)

Join via ZOOM

Passcode: 112561

Including Q&A session

Please note this seminar will not be recorded as unpublished data will be presented

Ian obtained his Biochemistry degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from The University of Cambridge with Dr Nick Ktistakis. He then moved to Stanford to carry out postdoctoral research with Prof Suzanne Pfeffer, working on Rab proteins and intracellular transport. During this time Ian became interested in autophagy and in 2007 joined the lab of Dr Xuejun Jiang at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Luckily, Ian was able to set up his own lab in 2010 at the University of Dundee to further study autophagy. A major focus of the lab now is in trying to understand the mechanisms that regulate mitochondrial autophagy (mitophagy) and the physiological contexts in which they occur.

All welcome!