Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Randy Schekman

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Randy Schekman, an HHMI investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, will present "Extracellular Vesicles and Intercellular Membrane Tubular Connections in the Intercellular Traffic of Proteins and RNA" as a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar.

Schekman is a world leader in cell biology, having discovered numerous fundamental processes of membrane assembly and trafficking in eukaryotic cells. He was a discoverer of the Sec family of proteins involved in vesicular trafficking, findings that have widespread implications for human health and disease. His transformative work on membrane movement and secretion led him to share in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. To this day, Schekman continues to be a trail blazer in the field of membrane biology. He is currently a professor and HHMI investigator in the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.