Dr. Peter Kim: "Pexophagy: A model for selective autophagy"
~ Eligible for PSL1000H/PSL2000H/PSL4000Y Course Seminar Attendance ~
Speaker: Dr. Peter Kim
Senior Scientist, Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Biography:
Dr. Peter Kim is a senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute and an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Kim received his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and completed a PhD, in Biochemistry at McMaster University in 2003. He then continued his training as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda MD in the laboratory of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
In 2009, Dr. Kim was recruited to The Hospital for Sick Children where he established a laboratory to study the mechanisms that regulate metabolic organelles and their role in childhood diseases.
Websites:
https://www.sickkids.ca/en/staff/k/peter-kim/
https://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/person/peter-k-kim/
Location: MSB 2170 (in-person only)