Munich, 3-4 November 2016
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Booklet:
Keynote Speakers
Alfonso Martinez Arias
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Professor of Developmental Mechanics at the University of Cambridge
As an undergraduate he studied Biology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. After graduating in 1977, he obtained a Fullbright scholarship to study in the US.
Since 2007 he is an elected Member of EMBO and in 2012 Professor Martinez was awarded with the Waddington Medal of the British Society of Developmental Biology.
His lab has its focus on the role of cell signalling in animal development and the physical principles of living matter.
David Bentley
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Professor at the Molecular Biology Faculty at the Colorado School of Medicine.
Professor David Bentley was born in Australia and educated in the US and UK. He particularly focused on the origins of antiboday diversity during his PhD work in Cambridge.
Professor Bentley switched his interests from immunology to transcriptional regulation when he did a postdoctoral fellow with Hal Weintraub at the Hutchinson Center in Seattle. Together with Mark Groudine he discovered that expression of the c-myc oncogene is regulated by limiting elongation of transcription.
They found that processing of pre-mRNA by capping, splicing and 3’ end processing requires the conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II, an observation that prompted them to propose the “mRNA factory” model.