Organizing Committee Member
Jacqueline London
Emeritus Professor
University Paris-Diderot
France
Biography
Jacqueline London (Emeritus Professor at University Paris-Diderot) has completed her PhD in the Pasteur Institute under the direction of Professor Jacques Monod (Nobel Price) and Professor Michel Goldberg in the field of protein folding and bacteriology (3 papers). She moved to immunology in Necker hospital under the direction of professor Jean Francois Bach and then was a visiting scientist at NIH (9 papers). After coming back to Paris she settled a laboratory in molecular biology at the Blood Center and cloned glycophorins A and B (13 papers). She then moved again to Necker Hospital where she joined the group working on Trisomy 21 and settled a laboratory to obtain transgenic mice for the SOD1 gene and cloned the murine CBS.
Research Area
She had published some 35 papers on different aspects of trisomy 21 using transgenic mice for some chromosome 21 genes: APP CBS, DYRK1A and SOD1.