Luis Aragon

Clinical Sciences Center (UK)

Luis Aragon is currently a Professor at Imperial College London (UK) and Group Leader at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre. His laboratory studies molecular mechanisms orchestrating the equal and faithful segregation of chromosomes during cellular division. His group is focused on the analysis of protein complexes that mediate chromosome structure and segregation, namely cohesin, condensin and a novel complex, the SMC5/6 complex. In addition, his laboratory is interested in regulatory networks that operate to coordinate different aspects of the chromosome metabolism, including DNA replication, DNA repair and chromosome segregation with cell cycle progression.