Igor Stagljar
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Igor received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where he worked in Markus Aebi’s lab studying protein glycosylation in yeast and humans. His postdoctoral fellowship was at the University of Zurich with Walter Schaffner and Ulrich Huebscher, where he studied RNA transcription and DNA repair. In addition, Igor was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle with Stan Fields, the inventor of the yeast two-hybrid technology. Igor was Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich from 2002-2005, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto since 2005, and Professor since 2010.
Research Interest
Interactome networks of integral membrane proteins and their roles in health & disease
