Phil Hieter



Region
British Columbia

Webpage
http://www.michaelsmith.ubc.ca/faculty/hieter/

Primary Position
Director and Professor

Primary Institution
University of British Columbia

Primary Affiliation
Micahel Smith Laboratories

Other
Advisory Board, SGD (Saccharomyces Genome Database), Stanford University Advisory Board, NRC/NIH Resource Center for Comprehensive Biology, University of Washington Science Advisory Committee, Genome BC Chair, Board of Scientific Counsellors, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Chair, “Integrating the Physical and Applied Sciences into Biomedical Research”, Planning and Priorities Committee, CIHR
Deapartment of Medical Genetics Deapertment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Expertise
Molecular genetics; Chromosome transmission; Centromere function; Mitosis; Cell division cycle; Mechanisms of aneuploidy; Genome analysis; Model organism research and human biology

Primary Research Field
Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosome transmission and genome stability in yeast, and its relevance to human cancer