Sydney Brenner , (January 13rd 1927) is a South-African biologist Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 2002.
Biography
Brenner is born with Germiston in South Africa. His/her father is of origin Lithuania and his Latvian mother . He studies at the local school then with the Université of Witwatersrand and supplements his doctorate with the Collège of Exeter of Oxford.After a short stay in South Africa, Brenner turns over in England to the Laboratoire Cavendish to join there the research unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) which will become the laboratory of Molecular biology and whose Brenner is director of 1979 with 1986. From 1986 with 1991, always to Cambridge, it directs the unit of molecular genetics of the MRC.
Brenner founds the Molecular Sciences Institute in 1996 with La Jolla which it directs since this date. He also works for the Salk Institute in La Jolla since 2001.
Seek
In the Années 1960 Brenner carries out important contributions in the field then emerging of the Molecular biology, in particular by elucidation in 1961 of coding by triplet used by the genetic Traduction. The Experiment of Crick, Brenner and Al allowed the discovery of the shifting changes.Brenner turns then to the study of a simple organization, Caenorhabditis elegans , like Organisme models to try to connect the genetic code to the biological mechanisms moreover high level, the development of the cells. Brenner chooses this organization for its simplicity and its facility of breeding. Its work on this organization is worth the to him Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 2002 with John E. Sulston and H. Robert Horvitz for “Their discoveries concerning the genetic regulation of the development of an organization and the programming of cellular death. ”. A species, Caenorhabditis brenneri was named in 2007 to point out the role of Brenner in the study of C. elegans.
References
Encyclopedia off Genetics , Sydney Brenner, Jeffrey K. Miller, Academic Near, 2001, ISBN 978-0122270802
See too
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