Conference: Cellular immortality and the keys to cancer and ageing

Date: Thursday, 6^th October 2011

Time: 7:00 pm.

Place: Bizkaia Aretoa, UPV/EHU Paraninfo - Bilbao

Maria Blasco (Alicante, 1965) earned her MD PhD in 1993 in the "Severo Ochoa" Centre of Molecular Biology, supervised by Margarita Salas. That same year she joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York (USA) for a postdoctoral stay directed by CW Greider. In 1997 she started her own research group within the National Centre of Biotechnology in Madrid. She joined the CNIO in 2003 as Director of the Molecular Oncology Program and Chief of the Telomeres and Telomerase and in 2005 she was designated Vice Chairperson thereof. She is currently the Director of the CNIO.

Description

Understanding the molecular bases of cellular immortality is one of the most active and novel fields in current biomedicine. Knowing what differentiates a mortal from an immortal cell is fundamental to be able to understand both cancer and the ageing process.

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