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PATRICE P. HAMEL Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Associate Investigator of the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Institute, Member of the Institute of Mitochondrial Biology,  Ph.D., University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, Post-doctoral scholar and Assistant Project Scientist, UCLA, American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Award, Paul Boyer Award for Excellence in Post-doctoral Research, Muscular Dystrophy Association Research Development Award.

The Hamel laboratory is located on the top floor of the Aronoff Laboratory in the main campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  My group is interested in the biogenesis of the energy-transducing membrane systems, in particular those evolved in mitochondria and chloroplasts and we are using the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as model systems for our studies. We are focusing on elucidating the maturation pathways of cytochromes c in mitochondria and chloroplasts using molecular genetic and biochemical approaches. More recently we became interested in the molecular dissection of mitochondrial complex I assembly using insertional mutagenesis and biolistic transformation of the mitochondrial genome (in collaboration with Prof. C. Remacle, University of Liege, Belgium))

Ph.D. candidates interested in our research should apply to one of the following graduate programs: Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology or Biophysics.

Contact information:

582 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-3817  Fax: (614) 292-6345  E-mail: hamel.16@osu.edu