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Alexander E. Kelly, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Head, Chromosome Dynamics and Genome Stability Investigator Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute Building 37, Room 6050 Bethesda, MD 20892-4260 Phone:   301-402-1562 Fax:   301-402-3095 E-Mail:   alexander.kelly@nih.gov

Biography

Dr. Kelly received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco in 2005. Working in the laboratories of Volker Dotsch and Dyche Mullins, he developed structural and biochemical techniques to dissect the molecular mechanisms of actin polymerization.

As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Hironori Funabiki at the Rockefeller University, his work focused on the mechanism of activation of Aurora B kinase, a major cancer therapy target that orchestrates many aspects of mitosis. These studies led to the discovery of the non-transcriptional role of histone modification in the spatial control of chromosome segregation. He joined the Laboratory of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in 2012.

This page was last updated on 2/20/2013.