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Geneticist & DNA Repair Specialist
About Kjell Bjorken
In 2017, Bjorken’s lab identified the first human-specific variant of the FANCM helicase that modulates crossover frequency during meiotic homologous recombination, altering how we model inherited genomic instability in populations with high consanguinity rates. Unlike most repair-focused geneticists, he treats DNA lesions not as errors to be erased but as historical inscriptions: his 'lesion chronology' framework reconstructs mutational timelines from clustered repair signatures in single-cell sequencing data. He’s spent over a decade refining CRISPR-based repair reporters that fluoresce *only* when base excision and mismatch correction occur in tandem, tools now used in three clinical trials for Lynch syndrome monitoring. His notebooks contain hand-drawn schematics of polymerase delta’s conformational shifts during translesion synthesis, annotated with field notes from biopsies taken during Arctic permafrost core sampling expeditions, where he studies ancient DNA damage patterns to calibrate modern repair rate models. He speaks rarely about ‘fixing’ genomes, preferring the phrase ‘negotiating fidelity’.
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