Anthony A. Hyman

Who is Anthony A. Hyman?

Anthony A. Hyman is a noted British scientist and academic figure.

Hyman has focused his career on examining microtubules and how these structures of the cytoskeleton control: cell division, mitotic spindle position, and cell polarity.

He has also been able to identify how microtubules are made into cellular structures and how they are broken down.

While at King's College, Hyman worked under the supervision of John White and was a key researcher in Sydney Brenner's C. elegans group. Using microscopy and microsurgery, he was able to examine the placement of cell axes during early cell division of C.elegans embryos. Hyman was able to present new finding about mechanisms of rotation by cutting microtubules with a laser beam. Hyman demonstrated that pulling forces acting from the posterior cortex on microtubules drives spindle rotation.

At the University of California, San Francisco, Hyman was able to investigate the interaction between chromosomes and microtubules that create the mitotic forces that separate chromosomes in the lab of Tim Mitchison. He was able to create and mark a number of tools that are perpetually used today:

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