The Nishinihon Journal of Dermatology
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  • Dr. Oliver Dreesen
    Oliver Dreesen
    Article type: letter
    2023 Volume 85 Issue 1 Pages 67-68
    Published: February 01, 2023
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2023
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2336/nishinihonhifu.85.67
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    Dr. Dreesen is a Senior Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory for Cell Aging at the Agency for Science，Technology & Research（A*STAR）in Singapore. He served as President of the Skin Research Society（Singapore）from 2019-2021 and was Chair of the Japan-Singapore Skin Research Conference that took place in Singapore from April 10-12，2019.

    After completing his undergraduate degree in Bern，Switzerland，Oliver Dreesen studied sporulation and intermediary metabolism in the gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis at the Institute Pasteur in Paris and the University of California，San Diego. In 2001，he started his Ph.D. project under the guidance of Prof. George A.M. Cross at the Rockefeller University in New York，USA with the intent to elucidate the role of telomeres during antigenic variation in the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei. T. brucei causes African sleeping sickness and evades the host immune response by frequently changing its surface coat. During his Ph.D. studies and a short postdoc in Prof. Nina Papavasiliou’s laboratory at Rockefeller University，Dr. Dreesen made significant contributions to our understanding of telomere replication and telomerase-independent telomere maintenance in T. brucei. Importantly，his work demonstrated how telomere length and breakage can regulate the frequency of antigenic switching and host immune evasion.

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