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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