Gilles Hickson
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Co-responsible for the creation of a new option in the Molecular Biology Program: Molecular Pathology and Personalized Medicine Responsible for the new course BIM6040 : Foundations in Molecular Biology, Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Komen for the Cure Foundation (2004-2007) Special Fellow of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (2007-2010) Genetics Society of America, DeLill Nasser Travel Award (2008) FRQS Research Fellow, Junior 1 (2009-2013) FRQS Research Fellow, Junior 2 (2014-2017 FRQS Research Fellow, Senior (2017-2021) Finalist, New Investigator Award Maud Menten, Institute of Genetics, CIHR / CIHR Transition Award from the Cole Foundation (2013) CIHR / CIHR Operating Grant (2009-2019) NSERC / NSERC Operating Grant (2014-2019) Infrastructure Grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms of cytokinesis The transition from the contractile ring to the midbody ring ("central body") Control of myosin actin cytoskeleton and septins by the scaffold protein, Anillin Developmental variations of cytokinesis using Drosophila as a model Potential involvement of cytokinesis machinery in cell migration and carcinogenesis
