Professor Rohan Baker interviewed by David Salt
TitleProfessor Rohan Baker interviewed by David Salt
Reference240000008
Date2001
Scope and ContentDr Rohan Baker received a PhD in 1988 from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. It was here that he discovered and analysed a gene sequence for human ubiquitin. Ubiquitin is a small protein that serves as a universal signal for the degradation of other proteins to which it is attached. He has continued to research the ubiquitin pathway since then.
During 1988-91 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, where he investigated how cells select proteins for degradation and go about attaching ubiquitin to them.
In 1991 Baker returned to the John Curtin School as a Research Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Group. He is now Head of the Ubiquitin Laboratory, where research centres on the role of ubiquitin in the destruction of other proteins (proteolysis) in the cell and how defects in the ubiquitin system affect the cell.
During 1988-91 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, where he investigated how cells select proteins for degradation and go about attaching ubiquitin to them.
In 1991 Baker returned to the John Curtin School as a Research Fellow in the Molecular Genetics Group. He is now Head of the Ubiquitin Laboratory, where research centres on the role of ubiquitin in the destruction of other proteins (proteolysis) in the cell and how defects in the ubiquitin system affect the cell.
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Persons keyword R. Baker, David Salt
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