A celebration of the life of Marie Öhman (1964–2019)
- 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
- 2CEITEC Masaryk University, Brno 625 00, Czech Republic
- 3Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University, Uppsala 75124, Sweden
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Marie Öhman, Professor of Molecular Biosciences at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, died on February 3, 2019. She was a beloved colleague, caring mentor, and a loyal friend, who passionately loved her husband Leif, sons Axel and Isak, and brother Johan.
Marie entered the RNA world during her PhD research with Gerhart Wagner at Uppsala University, where her studies led to important insights into the role of RNA structure in the antisense RNA control of plasmid replication. She also studied bacteriophage introns with Britt-Marie Sjöberg at Stockholm University, before pursuing her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Brenda Bass at the University of Utah. There she acquired her life-long interest in RNA editing by the adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs).
Marie was keenly interested in the neuronal functions of ADARs, and her laboratory made diverse scientific contributions in this area, ranging from important mechanistic …
