“The Role of O-GlcNAcylation in Abscission Regulation”
Dawn Wenzel, PhD is a current K12 Scholar working under Dr. Nancy Dahms. Dr. Wenzel is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at MCW. She received her PhD from the University of Washington-Seattle where she used structure-function studies to understand specificity within the ubiquitination system.
Dr. Wenzel then trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah where she studied how proteins from the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway sever membranes to complete cell division. In particular, she focused on a cell division checkpoint known as the abscission checkpoint that synchronizes the completion of mitotic events with ESCRT-mediated membrane severing. In her studies, she identified several proteins that function with ESCRT proteins to reversibly inhibit abscission. Dr. Wenzel’s research was supported in part by an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.