Kim Nasmyth

Kim Nasmyth
Nasmyth in 2017
Born
Kim Ashley Nasmyth

(1952-10-10) 10 October 1952 (age 72)[4]
NationalityBritish[5]
EducationEton College
Alma mater
Known forCohesin
Spouse
Anna Dowson
(m. 1982)
[4]
ChildrenTwo[4]
Awards
Scientific career
Fieldsmolecular biology, gene regulation, cell cycle control
Institutions
ThesisDNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (1977)
Doctoral advisorMurdoch Mitchison[2][3]
Notable students
Websitewww.bioch.ox.ac.uk/research/nasmyth

Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born 18 October 1952)[4] is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.[6][7] He is best known for his work on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division.

  1. ^ Louis-Jeantet Prize
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  4. ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Nasmyth, Prof. Kim Ashley". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.29204. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  6. ^ Anon (2004). "Movers: Kim Nasmyth, Whitley chair of biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK". Nature. 428 (6980): 350. doi:10.1038/nj6980-350c.
  7. ^ Schwob, E; Böhm, T; Mendenhall, M. D.; Nasmyth, K (1994). "The B-type cyclin kinase inhibitor p40SIC1 controls the G1 to S transition in S. Cerevisiae". Cell. 79 (2): 233–44. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(94)90193-7. PMID 7954792. S2CID 34939988.