EMBO Member
Bernard Dujon
EMBO 1989
Institut Curie, Paris, France
Genome architecture and evolution in yeasts
My main scientific interest concerns eukaryotic genomes. From my early studies on mitochondrial inheritance in yeast, I discovered the mobile introns and the first homing endonuclease, I-Sce I. I then contributed to the original sequencing of the entire yeast genome and subsequently extended my research to comparative yeast genomics with a constant interest on the architecture and evolutionary dynamics of eukaryotic genomes.
Keywords
Yeast genomics / eukaryotic genomes / mobile introns / homing endonucleases / genomic engineering / evolution