MIKKO TAIPALE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA

Mikko Taipale is a Professor in the Donnelly Centre and the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. He also holds the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Molecular Medicine and the Canada Research Chair in Functional Proteomics and Proteostasis. He received his MSc in genetics at the University of Oulu, Finland (close to the arctic circle). He then joined Asifa Akhtar’s lab in EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany and completed his PhD on chromatin regulation by histone acetylation. He did his postdoctoral training in Sue Lindquist’s lab at the Whitehead Institute. There, he focused on the client recognition mechanisms of Hsp90 chaperone and co-chaperones and on developing high-throughput protein/protein and drug/target interactions. Since 2014, Mikko has had his lab in the Donnelly Centre and the University of Toronto. The Taipale lab is focused on diverse aspects of functional proteomics and genomics, including protein homeostasis, transcriptional regulation, disease variant phenotyping, and host/pathogen interactions.