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Adresse Genotoxic
Center for Genotoxic
Stress Research
Danish Cancer Society

Strandboulevarden 49
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Phone: +45 3525 7799
genotoxic@cancer.dk

 

Structure

  • The Centre is headed by Jiri Lukas who serves as the directorJiri Bartek and Marja Jäättelä serve as deputy directors for International collaboration and for Educational aspects of the Centre’s activities, respectively.
  • Guarn Whitaker-Nissen serves as an administrative coordinator. Her area of responsibility includes administrative matters, practical arrangements and coodinating tasks, budget management, home page maintenance and liaison for Danish and international universities  institutions and organizations.
  • The research division of the Centre consists of several experienced assistant senior scientists who participate in supervision of young researchers as well as some sophisticated experimental tasks (such as live-cell imaging).
  • The young scientists (Ph.D. students and postdocs) employed by the Centre are integrated in the core labs together with the senior scientists  to achieve optimal cooperation.
  • Several technicians are closely involved in the experimental work; they also maintain the reagent repository, keep a collection of cryopreserved cell lines, and overlook the orders of consumables and equipment as well as safety issues.

For the personal details and links, please see the "PEOPLE’ section.

In addition to regular weekly project discussion within the individual groups, the mutual interaction within the Centre includes the biweekly meetings for all Centre associated junior and senior scientists. Particular emphasis in these meetings is put on identification of potential links between related projects, to expand the analytical level of the experiments, and to promote collaboration.

The working language of the Centre is English; the working languages of the Institute of Cancer Biology at the Danish Cancer Society (the host Institute) are English and Danish.

 








Publications

The chromatin- remodeling factor CHD4 coordinates signaling and repair after DNA damage

J.Cell Biol.
(2010, 10 1083-1093)

Awards
 
Dr. Jiri Bartek was awarded the prestigious 2009 Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research 0n March 15.
 
Meetings and cources

15th Danish Cancer Society Symposium
Genetic Instability and Stem Cells in Cancer
19-21 October 2009
This event was organized by Drs. Jiri Bartek and Jiri Lukas who also served as keynote speakers.


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