The rockefeller university

Event Details

Type

Special Seminar Series

Speaker(s)

Hans-Hilger Ropers, M.D., director, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics; professor, department of human molecular genetics, Humboldt University

Speaker bio(s)

Dr. Ropers researches monogenic disorders to understand not only their molecular diagnosis, prevention and treatment, but also as a strategy to shed light on the function of human genes. During the past decade, Dr. Ropers and his group have successfully employed positional cloning and related strategies to elucidate molecular defects underlying various genetic disorders, including blindness, deafness and mental retardation. Dr. Ropers and his colleagues have shown that the complexity of mental retardation is largely due to genetic heterogeneity. His current focus is the systematic elucidation of early onset cognitive defects and related disorders, particularly autosomal recessive forms which have been largely disregarded in the past.

Dr. Ropers studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Munich in Germany and received his M.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1972. He served as professor and head of the department of human genetics at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands from 1984 to 1997 and in 1994 he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and professor in the department of human genetics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Ropers has been a member of the Human Genome Organization since its inception and is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has served as advisor to the German Research Organization, the Dutch Organization for the Advancement of Scientific Research and the European Union.

Open to

Public

Host

Jean-Laurent Casanova

Reception

Refreshments, 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Jill Benz

Phone

(212) 327-7244

Sponsor

Jill Benz
(212) 327-7244
benzj@rockefeller.edu