Brad Cairns Ph.D.
Investigator, HHMI
Professor, Dept. of Oncological Sciences
John & Karen Huntsman Presidential
Professor in Cancer Research
Brad Cairns was born in Canada, and emigrated to the US during grade school. He received a B.S. in Chemistry (Honors) from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and then a PhD in Cell Biology from Stanford University, where he worked with Roger Kornberg PhD (Nobel Laureate) on signal transduction and chromatin remodeling. He was a fellow with the Leukemia Society and the American Cancer Society while a postdoctoral fellow with Fred Winston PhD at Harvard Medical School, where he expanded his interests in chromatin. He joined the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in 1998, and was appointed as an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2000. He is now the Jon and Karen Huntsman Presidential Professor of Cancer Research, and the Director of Molecular Biology for Utah, with a broad program in gene expression, chromatin, epigenetics and developmental biology. Brad and Lanna Cairns are blessed with a son, Jasper, and an affectionate Golden Retriever, Mojo.
Talk Title: “Chromatin of mature germ cells”