Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil: A dynamic career
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JCB • VOLUME 215 • NUMBER 1 • 2016 2 Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil was born in Santiago, Chile, but spent her childhood in France, after her family emigrated when Augusto Pinochet came to power. Her father’s sister was a biochemist in France, and it was in her aunt’s lab that Lennon-Duménil fi rst caught the science bug. At the early age of eight she decided to become a scientist and never looked back. Lennon-Duménil was less quick to narrow her scientifi c focus, perhaps because of what she calls her “compulsive curiosity.” Although she now considers her greatest accomplishment the description of an evolutionary mechanism that allows cells to coordinate movement and function, her interests did not always lie in cellular dynamics. She completed her undergraduate studies in biology at the Universidad de Chile after her family returned to the country in 1988. After a PhD fellowship at the Pasteur Institute in the genetics laboratory of Marc Fellous, she conducted postdoctoral studies at Harvard University with the immunologist Hidde Ploegh. Below, she shares how these experiences led to a career investigating the spatiotemporal regulation of antigen presentation.
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