Kim Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth | |
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Nasmyth in 2017 | |
| Born | Kim Ashley Nasmyth 10 October 1952 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Eton College |
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| Known for | Cohesin |
| Spouse |
Anna Dowson (m. 1982) |
| Children | Two |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | molecular biology, gene regulation, cell cycle control |
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| Thesis | DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Murdoch Mitchison |
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| Website | www |
Kim Ashley Nasmyth (born 18 October 1952) is an English geneticist, the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and former head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. He is best known for his work on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division.