Edward Curtis, Ph.D
Ed grew up in Los Angeles, California in the USA. As a child he wanted to be an entomologist, but changed his mind when he took his first course in molecular biology. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he worked with Laura Landweber in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where he studied gene scrambling in ciliates. He then moved to MIT for graduate school, where he isolated new kinase ribozymes using in vitro selection in the lab of Dave Bartel. As a postdoc at Harvard, he worked with David Liu in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, where he used in vitro selection to identify new GTP-binding motifs in genomic DNA. He started his independent career at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague in 2014. His lab uses artificial evolution to explore the functional potential of DNA and RNA.
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Development and application of catalytic DNA molecules
APR 8 14:50 - 16:30
Photochemistry lecture room Viničná 7
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