Molecular Biology Program
The Dirk Remus Lab
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We are interested in the mechanism of chromosome replication, a process that is highly conserved across eukaryotes and that involves the duplication of both the chromosomal DNA and its associated chromatin states. As chromosomes are the carriers of both the genetic and epigenetic information, faithful chromosome replication is of fundamental importance for genome maintenance during normal cell proliferation. Accordingly, defects in chromosome replication are a major driver of the genomic instability observed in cancer cells. To understand the molecular mechanisms by which eukaryotic cells carry out and monitor accurate genome replication we employ a fully reconstituted DNA replication system based on purified proteins from the budding yeast, S. cerevisiae. Research projects are focused on the mechanistic characterization of the DNA replication machinery, the mechanism of replication-coupled chromatin assembly, and the control of DNA replication by checkpoint genome surveillance pathways.

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Dirk Remus, PhD
- Molecular biologist Dirk Remus investigates mechanisms of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells.
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Young Investigator Award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2011)
- Long-Term Fellow, EMBO (2006)
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