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González Hernández, Cayetano
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ICREA Research Professor at IRB (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona). Life & Medical Sciences
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After completing a Ph.D. on fly genetics in the laboratory of Pedro Ripoll at the Centre for Molecular Biology (CBM, Madrid, Spain), Cayetano Gonzalez moved to David Glover’s lab in the UK, first at Imperial College and later as a CRC Joint Principal Investigator at Dundee. In 1994, he took his first independent position, as a Group Leader at EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany), and his hair went white. After the customary nine-year period at EMBL, he moved to CNIO (Madrid), but he moved out only nine months later to his present post at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB-Barcelona), where he is a Research Professor funded by the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), leading the Cell Division Group. They use Drosophila as a model system to elucidate the role of centrosomes in cell division and development and to learn how stem-cell-derived tumours arise and grow.
Taken from: Current Biology, Q&A section. Vol 18, Issue 2, 22 Jan 2008, R50-R51
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Research Interests
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Our goal is to understand the mechanisms of cell division. We apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines genetics, molecular biology and advanced in vivo microscopy. We use Drosophila as well as cultured cells derived from vertebrates as model systems. Current on-going projects include the study of the mechanisms of spindle assembly, the characterisation of new centrosomal proteins and the modelling of cancer in Drosophila
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KeyWords
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Cell Division, Drosophila melanogaster, Centrosomes, Stem Cells, Cancer.
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