Susanne Bruekner
Ph.D. student
Department of Cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Netherlands
Biography
She studied Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. As a PhD student in Titia Sixma's group she work on DNA mismatch repair, an essential process that corrects replication errors. With the help of cryo EM and other biophysical methods she try to elucidate the structure and function of the proteins that form the repair machinery. This knowledge can help finding new treatments for a colon cancer (Lynch syndrome) that is associated with defects in the mismatch repair proteins.
Research Interest
Biochemistry, Colon cancer
