Using rare variants to uncover the mechanism of the Alzheimer disease risk factor APOE

Host: Philip Cohen

Location: Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR 2.84

About the speaker:

Rosie is a young Principal Investigator who joined the Department of Neuroscience one year ago, which is located on the Ground Floor of SLS in the MSI building. A US citizen born and brought up in Southern California, Rosie then moved to Scotland, where she obtained a B.Sc in Biochemistry from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and then a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She returned to the USA to carry out postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, before accepting the offer of a Lectureship from the Department of Neuroscience at Dundee. The seminar will be of particular interest to all those interested in the molecular causes of neurodegenerative diseases.  Students in SLS may be interested to know that both of Rosie’s parents, Michael Jackson and Clare MacGowan, obtained their PhDs in the Biochemistry Department at Dundee from 184-1987 long before the Departments of Biochemistry, Biological Sciences and Anatomy and Physiology merged to form the School of Life Sciences in 2000. Clare MacGowan was a student in Philip Cohen’s lab and Michael Jackson’s supervisor was Brian Burchell, who later became Dean of the Medical School at Dundee.