SPEAKERS
Randy W. Schekman
AFFILIATION:
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
POSITION TITLE:
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
University of California, Los Angeles B.A. 1970 Molecular Biology, Cum Laude
Stanford University School of Medicine Ph.D. 1975 Biochemistry, (Advisor: Dr. A. Kornberg)
University of California, San Diego Post-Doc. 1976 Biology (PD Advisor: S.J. Singer)
HONORS:
1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
1970 UCLA Zoology Department Undergraduate Research Award
1974-76 Cystic Fibrosis Postdoctoral Fellow
1982-83 Guggenheim Fellow
1987 Eli Lilly Research Award in Microbiology and Immunology
1992 Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
1994 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in Basic Biomedical Science
1995 Harvey Lecture, The Harvey Society
1996 The Gairdner International Award
1999 Berkeley Faculty Research Lecturer
1999 Amgen Award Lecture, Protein Society
2002 Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research
2002 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University
2005 Keith Porter Lecture, American Society for Cell Biology
2007 Van Deenan Medalist, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2008 Dickson Prize in Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
2008 Inaugural Senior Fellow, Miller Institute, UC Berkeley
2010 Massry Prize, Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation
2010 E. B. Wilson Award, American Society for Cell Biology
2011 Inaugural Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award - Stanford University School of Medicine
2013 Otto Warburg Prize of the German Biochemical Society
2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2014 UCLA Medal
2015 University Professor, University of California System
2016 UC Education Abroad Program Alumnus of the year
2016 UC Berkeley Faculty Fiat Lux Award
2017 Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Schekman’s group Investigates the mechanism of membrane protein traffic in the secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells.Currently the lab investigates the mechanism of biogenesis of extracellular vesicles including how small RNAs aresorted for secretion in exosomes and the means by which these vesicles are internalized and function in target cells,
PUBLICATIONS:
List of published work in Scopus:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7103412555