microRNA发现者参观基因工程教育部重点实验室

          9月17日MicroRNA的发现者，Victor Ambros在颜光美副校长带领下参观我院屈良鹄教授的实验室。

Victor Ambros教授简介：
Victor Ambros grew up in in the New England region of the USA, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975. He did his PhD research (1976-1979) with David Baltimore at MIT, studying poliovirus genome structure and replication. He began to study the genetic pathways controlling developmental timing in the nematode C. elegans as a postdoc in H. Robert Horvitz's lab at MIT, and continued those studies while on the faculty of Harvard (1984-1992), Dartmouth (1992-2007) and the University of Massachusetts, Medical School (2008-present). In 1993, Ambros and co-workers Rosalind Lee and Rhonda Feinbaum identified the first microRNA, the product of the heterochronic gene lin-4 in C. elegans. Currently, the chief research interest of the Ambros lab is understanding the roles of microRNA-mediated regulatory pathways in animal development and human disease.