Welcome to The Amon Lab

The Amon Lab started in 1996 at the Whitehead Institute with Angelika Amon, Rosella Visintin and Susanne Prinz. In 1999 the lab moved to the Center for Cancer Research at MIT and has been there ever since. Currently, the lab consists of 6 Post Docs, 10 Graduate students, and 2 Technicians.

We study chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis using budding yeast as a model system. Our efforts are focused on understanding how the various aspects of chromosome segregation are connected to each other and integrated with other cellular events. It is our hope that deciphering the regulatory networks that ensure accurate chromosome segregation will not only shed light on the regulation of normal cell division but will also allow us to understand what goes wrong during abnormal cell division that leads to cancer and birth defects.