Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 28, 2025
Titia de Lange, Ph.D.
Leon Hess Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University
2.7 Billion Years of Shelterin and T-loops: From Telomere Protection to Cancer Prevention
Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Myler, Logan R., et al. “The evolution of metazoan shelterin.” Genes & development 35.23-24 (2021): 1625-1641.
de Lange, Titia. “What I got wrong about shelterin.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 293.27 (2018): 10453-10456.
De Lange, Titia. “Shelterin-mediated telomere protection.” Annual review of genetics 52.1 (2018): 223-247.
Maciejowski, John, and Titia de Lange. “Telomeres in cancer: tumour suppression and genome instability.” Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 18.3 (2017): 175-186.
De Lange, Titia. “Shelterin: the protein complex that shapes and safeguards human telomeres.” Genes & development 19.18 (2005): 2100-2110.