Thomas Graf gives the next "Sessió Conjunta" on Friday, April 16th

“Plasticity of hematopoietic stem cells and their differentiated progeny” is the title of the talk that Thomas Graf, researcher and professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the Centre for Genomic Regulation, will give next Friday, April 16th at 12am at the Sala Josep Marull at the IMIM/UPF building, as part of the scientific sessions of the Fundació PRBB.

Graf is coordinator of the Programme of Differentation and Cancer at the Centre of Genomic Regulation (CRG). This program is centered on the biology of differentiating cell systems, using tissue culture and mouse models, and currently is focused on the following three areas: "The role of transcription factors in the development and function of hematopoietic cells", "Tissue regeneration and plasticity" and "Molecular mechanisms of leukemia formation".

Thomas Graf got his PhD from the University of Tuebingen. As a Postdoc he worked from 1969 to 1971 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Virology in Tuebingen and from 1972 to 1973 as a Postdoctoral Fellow (Fellowship from the “Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Research”) in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of the Duke University, Durham in the U.S. After that, he returned to Tuebingen as assistant professor until 1978, when he began to work as a Section Head and Professor at the Institute of Virology, German Cancer Research Center, in Heidelberg. From 1983 to 1998 he became a Programme Coordinator and Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and till today he is Professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and leader of the Programme of Differentiation and Cancer at the CRG.