{"id":2534,"date":"2015-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-institute-professor-vicki-lundblad-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:17:11","slug":"salk-institute-professor-vicki-lundblad-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institute-professor-vicki-lundblad-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk Institute Professor Vicki Lundblad in National Academy of Sciences gew\u00e4hlt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA\u2014The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/\">National Academy of Sciences<\/a> (NAS) recently announced that Salk Institute Professor <a href=\"\/de\/faculty\/lundblad.html\/\">Vicki Lundblad<\/a> is one of 84 new members to be elected to the NAS. The election is considered one of the highest honors accorded a U.S. scientist. Lundblad&#8217;s recognition brings the number of Salk faculty elected to the NAS to 14.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2081-Vicki-Lundblad.jpg\" alt=\"Vicki Lundblad\"><\/p>\n<p>Vicki Lundblad<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nLundblad, the Becky and Ralph S. O&#8217;Connor Chair and professor in the <a href=\"\/de\/science\/directory\/faculty\/?sort=lab\">Labor f\u00fcr Molekular- und Zellbiologie<\/a>, seeks to understand how the ends of chromosomes determine how many times a cell can divide. Her early work showed that these chromosome termini, called telomeres, act as a cellular time-keeper, by losing DNA sequence with each cell division. Fortunately, there is a way around this countdown: an enzyme called telomerase rebuilds these eroding telomeres and allows cells to divide indefinitely. Lundblad&#8217;s group pioneered the discovery of the key subunits that make up this telomerase enzyme, using the yeast <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae<\/em>\u2014the same yeast used to make wine and bread\u2014as their experimental system. This simple single-celled organism has also allowed Lundblad and her colleagues to subsequently uncover numerous insights about what dictates when and where telomerase acts inside the cell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLundblad&#8217;s work also laid the groundwork for comparable studies in human cells.  Normal human cells have very low levels of telomerase, which limits their cell division potential. Since lungs, skin, liver and other organs must be replenished by newly divided cells, the resulting eventual block to cell division due to eroding telomeres contributes to the aging process. In contrast, greatly elevated levels of telomerase drives the unregulated cell growth exhibited by cancer cells. Recent work by Lundblad&#8217;s group has uncovered a novel mechanism that may &#8220;fine-tune&#8221; telomerase, to keep it at levels that ensure healthy cell division but are not sufficient for the rampant cell growth that characterizes cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n\u00dcber das Salk Institute for Biological Studies:<\/strong><br \/>\nDas Salk Institute for Biological Studies ist eine der weltweit f\u00fchrenden Institutionen f\u00fcr Grundlagenforschung, an der international anerkannte Fakult\u00e4tsmitglieder in einem einzigartigen, kollaborativen und kreativen Umfeld grundlegende Fragen der Biowissenschaften erforschen. Mit dem Fokus auf Entdeckungen und die Ausbildung zuk\u00fcnftiger Forschergenerationen leisten Salk-Wissenschaftler bahnbrechende Beitr\u00e4ge zu unserem Verst\u00e4ndnis von Krebs, Altern, Alzheimer, Diabetes und Infektionskrankheiten durch die Erforschung von Neurowissenschaften, Genetik, Zell- und Pflanzenbiologie sowie verwandten Disziplinen.<\/p>\n<p>\nDie Leistungen der Fakult\u00e4t wurden mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen gew\u00fcrdigt, darunter Nobelpreise und Mitgliedschaften in der National Academy of Sciences. Gegr\u00fcndet im Jahr 1960 von Jonas Salk, MD, dem Pionier der Polio-Schluckimpfung, ist das Institut eine unabh\u00e4ngige gemeinn\u00fctzige Organisation und ein architektonisches Wahrzeichen.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[98],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2534","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-vicki-lundblad"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk Institute Professor Vicki Lundblad elected to National Academy of Sciences - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institute-professor-vicki-lundblad-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk Institute Professor Vicki Lundblad elected to National Academy of Sciences - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA\u2014The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently announced that Salk Institute Professor Vicki Lundblad is one of 84 new members to be elected to the NAS. 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