The Centre for
Cancer Research will host a Special Seminar at 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday
28th November 2017 in Seminar Room 2, Level 2 of the TRF Building.
Professor Tony Burgess will be
presenting "Colon Crypt Biology - Towards the Prediction of Cancer Drug
Responses"
Professor
Tony Burgess is a colon cancer researcher and was Director of the Ludwig
Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne and Professor of Surgery at the
Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne for 30 years. Currently, he
is a Laboratory Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. He is particularly
interested in identifying the mechanisms which control crypt production in
normal, adenomatous and cancerous colon tissue. This focus has led him to study
the EGFR, wnt and notch signalling. In 2012, his laboratory started to grow
mouse colon crypts and for the last two years members of his laboratory have
been culturing human colon crypts.
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