Biography

Tony Hyman received his BSc in Zoology from University College, London. He did his first experiments on C. elegans as a PhD student in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, King’s College, Cambridge. He then moved to the University of California, San Francisco to pursue postdoctoral research with Tim Mitchison. In 1993, Hyman moved to the EMBL in Heidelberg and in 1999 he became a Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

Hyman’s lab studies the spatial control of the microtubule cytoskeleton and how this affects mitosis and cell division. Much of his research uses the technique of RNA interference in C. elegans embryos but some experiments study human cells using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) transgenesis.

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