Alumni Lecture Series at Department of Biological Sciences (ALSDBS)- Talk-3
Title of Talk: ‘How does information transfer occur inside cells: Multifaceted roles of the ubiquitin system’
Speaker : Dr. Yogesh Kulathu
Affiliation : MRC PPU, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Venue : 6106
Date &Time : 21 December 2022 12:15 PM
Brief Background of the speaker: Yogesh graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2000 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, followed by a Master's degree in Biotechnology (M.E. Biotechnology). He then went on to do a Ph.D. in Immunology at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he worked on B cell antigen receptor signalling and protein tyrosine kinase regulation. To apply structural biology methods to study cell signalling, Yogesh moved to Cambridge in 2009 to do his postdoctoral training at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, funded by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship and an European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Long term fellowship. In 2013, Yogesh relocated to the MRC PPU to establish his research program, focussing on ubiquitin signalling mechanisms. In 2015 Yogesh received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (€1.5 million) and was selected as a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. He is also a recipient of the Lister Research Prize from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. In 2021 he received a highly sought-after ERC Consolidator Grant (€2.5 million).