Kerstin Tiedemann

Biography

In 1994, she was received a M.Sc. degree in Cell and Molecular Biology at Lund University in Sweden, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the same university in 2000. Between 2000 and 2004, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lubeck in Germany, studying the biology and biochemistry of fibrillin and other microfibril-associated proteins of the extracellular matrix in health and disease. Since 2005, I have been working at McGill University as a research associate. My general interests and expertise are in extracellular matrix biology, in particular, the functional consequences of cell and protein interactions. In Dr. Komarova�s lab, I focus on the identification of unknown osteoclastogenic factors that are secreted to the extracellular space from either breast cancer cells or from normal proliferating cells. Another goal is to reveal cellular signalling events triggered by these osteoclastogenic factors using osteoclast precursor cells.  

Research Interest

Dentistry