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Dr. Rachubinski is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. After receiving a Ph.D. in cell biology from McGill University in 1980, he pursued postdoctoral research at McGill and at the Rockefeller University in New York. After serving as assistant, associate, and full professor in the Department of Biochemistry at McMaster University, he assumed his current position at the University of Alberta. In 2001, he was named Canada Research Chair in Cell Biology and Senior Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In 2002, he was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been an HHMI international research scholar since 1997.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
With every round of cell division, organelles must be duplicated and distributed to daughter cells, while the mother cell retains some fraction of the organelles. Richard Rachubinski is investigating how peroxisomes, organelles involved in lipid metabolism, are inherited at cell division and the molecular factors required for this process.
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