PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute

http://www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/lindquist.html

Written by David Cameron

Susan Lindquist’s primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, where her laboratory is located and all her research is conducted. She also is a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

"Prion recognition elements govern nucleation, strain specificity and species barriers"

Peter M. Tessier (1) & Susan Lindquist (2)

(1) Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

(2) Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.

Advance online publication at www.nature.com at 1 pm U.S. Eastern time, May 9, 2007. Advance online publication digital object identifier: 10.1038/nature05848.

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