Michael Lichten
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CCR
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Michael Lichten is a research microbiologist in the Microbial Genetics and Biochemistry Section of this laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in 1982 from M.I.T. (with Maurice S. Fox) and postdoctoral training at Brandeis University (with Dr. James E. Haber). He joined this laboratory as a Senior Staff Fellow in 1987, became a Senior Investigator in 1995, and became a member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service in 2000. He serves on the editorial boards of PLOS Genetics and the Annual Review of Genetics. In 2016, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Research Interest
1) Homologous recombination 2) DNA repair 3) meiosis 4) chromatin 5) chromosome structure 6) Saccharomyces cerevisiae 7) Chromosome Biology 8) Genetics and Genomics 9) Molecular Biology and 10) Biochemistry.
Publications
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Polo-like kinase Cdc5 drives exit from pachytene during budding yeast meiosis.
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Differential timing and control of noncrossover and crossover recombination during meiosis.
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Meiosis-induced double-strand break sites determined by yeast chromatin structure.
