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Richard O. Hynes is 2012 JHC Plenary Speaker
JHC Editor-in-Chief John Couchman has announced that Richard O. Hynes, the MIT Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will give the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry Plenary lecture at the HCS Annual Meeting in 2012.
Dr. Hynes received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978 and has spent the last three decades researching cell adhesion. "Cell adhesion is essential for life in all organisms made up of more than one cell," according to Hynes HHMI Biography. "It is what determines where cells are in the body, how they interact with one another, and how and where they move, both during embryonic development and in normal physiology."
The Hynes lab is interested in understanding the molecular basis of cell adhesion and its involvement in cell behavior including contributions to various human diseases, especially cancer progression, including invasion, metastasis and angiogenesis. Around 5-10% of the genes in a mammalian genome are involved in cell adhesion. The lab uses genetically engineered mice and cells derived from them, combined with molecular and cell biological methods, to investigate the roles of adhesion molecules in both normal physiology and in mouse models of human diseases.