Dr. Trevor Lithgow University of Melbourne, Australia

Trevor Lithgow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne. Trevor completed his PhD at La Trobe University and his postdoctoral research at the University of Basel working with Gottfried Schatz on protein import into mitochondria. Currently, work in Dr. Lithgow's... read morelaboratory is directed at establishing how the protein import machinery in mitochondria evolved and how it functions: both in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in a diverse set of single-celled pathogens.