Javier Caceres#
| Membership Number: | 4285 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/j.caceres.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Head of Genome Regulation Section, MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2012 Professor of RNA and Gene expression (Personal Chair), MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2001 Senior Scientist (tenured position), MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
- 1997 Scientist (tenure-track), MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
- 1991 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Adrian R. Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
- 1989 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. James Dahlberg, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Gene expression
- RNA biology
- Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD)
- Alternative splicing
- MicroRNAs
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) (Scotland's National Academy of Science and Letters)
- 2011 Awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
- 2008 Elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
