Sam Rogers

Sam Rogers graduated from the University of Sydney in 2012 with a Bachelor of Advanced Science (majors: biochemistry and chemistry) and the University of NSW in 2013 with first-class Honours. In 2014, Sam received an Australian Postgraduate Award and a Garvan Ph.D. Scholarship to undertake a Ph.D under the supervision of A/Prof. Andrew Burgess at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre within the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. During his Ph.D., Sam unveiled regulatory mechanisms required to maintain the fidelity of chromosome separation during the cell cycle. Further, he demonstrated that dysregulation of these signalling pathways leads to the high-rate of chromosome mis segregation and aneuploidy observed in cancer. In the Genome Integrity Unit Sam has developed proximity-ligation tools used with proteomics that enabled his identification of regulatory networks required for telomere functions across the cell cycle. He is now exploring these pathways in detail.