Winner of $5,000 Kaluza Prize for Outstanding Graduate Bioscience Research (IMAGE)
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Guangbo Chen, who was a graduate student in Rong Li’s lab at the Stowers Institute, is the 2015 $5,000 Kaluza Prize winner. He won for his discovery that increased cell-stress caused by inhibition of a key chaperone protein (Hsp90) can be a major cause of aneuploidy, and the resulting changes in chromosome copy number promote cellular adaptation. This is the first example of a stress-induced genome change in a eukaryote that fuels adaption.
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