SEMINAR: �A worms view: insights into post-transcriptional gene regulation during oogenesis"

Peter Boag is a Lecturer in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at Monash University. He received his PhD in molecular parasitology from The University of Melbourne before undertaking postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, where he utilised the C. elegans model system to explore mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation in the context of development. During this time he published several important papers describing a conserved RNA-protein complex required for translational regulation of germ cell mRNAs. Since returning to Australia he has continued this research theme and is currently studying mechanisms of cap-dependent translation, germ granule formation and role of small RNA during oogenesis.