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Apr 29, 2022 · Randy Schekman receives the UCLA Medal from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Chancellor Gene Block at the 2014 UCLA commencement. (Photo by Reed Hutchinson/UCLA) This year’s commencement will also feature a speech from the soon-to-be-named University Medalist, the top graduating senior from the Class of 2022.
Randy W. Schekman delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2013 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Urban Lendahl, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Genes and Proteins That Control the Secretory Pathway: Lecture Slides. Pdf 8.42 MB.
Randy Schekman is interested in membrane assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion among organelles of the secretory pathway. Schekman and his team apply basic principles they developed from studies of a simple eukaryote, yeast, to investigate the mechanisms of intracellular vesicular transport and biogenesis of extracellular vesicles (exosomes) in cultured human cells.
The key was a set of genes, identified by the isolation of ts lethal mutations that focused attention on crucial control elements in the progression of the cell cycle (23). Subsequent molecular genetic discoveries by Paul Nurse, Tim Hunt and others illuminated the molecular basis of cell cycle control.
Randy Schekman. Nature Chemical Biology 2 , 568 ( 2006) Cite this article. As a pioneer in the field of membrane traffic, Randy Schekman shares a compelling historical perspective on the roles of ...
Schekman has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Geneva and the University of Regensburg. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2006-2011, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Proceeding of the NAS. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal eLife.
Song L, Tian X, Schekman R. J Cell Biol. 2021 Sep 6;220(9):e202101075. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202101075. PMID: 34309628. Syncytin-mediated open-ended membrane tubular connections facilitate the intercellular transfer of cargos including Cas9 protein .
