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Dr. Kornblihtt is professor of molecular and cell biology at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also an investigator at the Institute of Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurosciences (IFIBYNE) of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires and conducted postdoctoral studies in the United Kingdom at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He has received the Bernardo Houssay Prize from CONICET, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Antorchas Fellowship, and the Konex Platinum Prize in Cytology and Molecular Biology. He is a member of the scientific councils of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy) and the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (South Africa). He has been an HHMI international research scholar since 2002.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Alberto Kornblihtt's research focuses on the regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms that couple the splicing and transcription machineries. His group studies how changes in the rate of transcriptional elongation and recruitment of splicing factors to the transcribing polymerase affect alternative splicing and contribute to the generation of multiple protein variants from a single gene.
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Photo: Courtesy of Alberto Kornblihtt
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