Dr Mikael Björklund

 Mikael Björklund is a biochemist at the Division of Molecular Physiology, College of Life Sciences, Dundee. His primary research interest is cell growth and proliferation in multicellular organisms. Cellular growth and proliferation are complex processes that must be carefully coordinated with the other cellular functions. Failure to do so may lead to severe diseases such as cancer. To understand this regulation and the players involved, the primary tools utilized by Mikael are high-throughput screens and other genome-scale methods in Drosophila and mammalian cell culture models. These approaches generate useful information about gene and protein function in a genome-scale context. This information can be used for example as a starting point for more detailed biochemical and molecular analyses or computer modeling. Mikael received his PhD from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and was a postdoctoral fellow there before moving to Dundee in 2009.

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