Benjamen Montpetit

2006 Research Trainee Award, Senior Graduate Studentship

Characterizing the role of sumoylation at the budding yeast kinetochore

Aneuploidy – the result of the uneven separation of two matching sets of chromosomes during cell division – is found in more than 70 per cent of cancers and is now widely accepted as a major predisposing condition to cancer initiation and progression.

Benjamen Montpetit is studying the role of the kinetochore, a protein complex that is of fundamental importance to the equal separation of chromosomes during cell division. Using yeast cells as a model, his research into the components responsible for chromosome transmission will result in a better understanding of the events involved in creating aneuploid cells and will provide a mechanistic basis for understanding chromsome instability in human cancers.

Completed award term, March 2007

Previously received 2002 MSFHR Trainee Award
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Received 2007 MSFHR Trainee Award
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