Catherine L Day
Catherine Day is a Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Otago. She completed her BSc(Hons) (1990) and PhD (1993) at Massey University in protein biochemistry. After periods as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley, and again at Massey University, she moved to the University of Otago in 2001 and established a research group investigating the role of protein-protein interactions in the regulation of cell signalling. Her group has focused on analysis of proteins and protein complexes that have key roles in regulating apoptosis (programmed cell death), and her early work contributed to our understanding of Bcl-2 protein interactions. More recently her research group has focused on understanding how protein ubiquitylation impacts on signaling pathways, particularly apoptotic signaling. Research in her group has helped explain how several RING E3 ligases are regulated and how ubiquitin transfer is promoted. Ongoing research in her laboratory is focused on characterising the molecular events associated with ubiquitin transfer for a range of E2 and E3 proteins.
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