Yorgo Modis
Yorgo Modis | |
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Yorgo Modis in 2016 | |
| Born | Yorgo Eugene Modis 1974 (age 50–51) |
| Nationality | Switzerland-United States-Greece |
| Alma mater | International School of Geneva (IB) University of Cambridge (BA, MA) European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry Structural Biology |
| Institutions | European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg Harvard Medical School Yale University MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Rik A. Wierenga Stephen C. Harrison |
| Website | www |
Yorgo E. Modis (born 1974) is Professor in Virology and Immunology, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge. He is head of The Modis Lab in the Molecular Immunity Unit at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He studies cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing. His group employs a diverse set of complementary biophysical approaches including cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), X-ray crystallography, solution biophysics, fluorescence microscopy and cell biological approaches to understand the cellular mechanisms of viral gene sensing and silencing in molecular-level detail.