Submit an Event (See the POLICIES ON POSTING EVENTS.)
| April 07, 2015 |
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: 113A of the Lowder Building
Spring 2015 Littleton-Franklin/York Lecture April 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Featuring guest lecturer Jack W. Szostak Dr. Szostak is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical
School, and the Alex Rich Distinguished Investigator in the Dept. of Molecular Biology and the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Szostak’s early research was on the genetics and biochemistry of DNA recombination
and telomeres. His current research interests are in the laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems, the origin of life, and applied evolutionary chemistry. He and his colleagues developed in vitro selection as a tool for the isolation of rare functional
RNA, DNA and protein molecules from large pools of random sequences. His laboratory has used in vitro selection and directed evolution to isolate and characterize numerous nucleic acid sequences with specific ligand binding and catalytic properties. For this
work, Dr. Szostak was awarded, along with Dr. Gerald Joyce, the 1994 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and the 1997 Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern. Dr. Szostak is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of
the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2000, Dr. Szostak was awarded the Medal of the Genetics Society of America, and in 2006 Dr. Szostak shared the Albert
Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider. Dr. Szostak is the 2008 recipient of the H.P. Heineken Prize in Biophysics and Biochemistry. In 2009 Dr. Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Elizabeth
Blackburn and Carol Greider for their work on telomeres and telomerase. The lecture is free and open to the public. Details Date: April 7 Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Event Categories: Academics, Community, Current Students, Faculty, Future Students Venue Lowder
Building 113 A Lowder Building, Auburn, AL 36849 United States
Name of Sponsor Organization: York Distinguished Lecture Series and the Littleton-Franklin Lectures Contact Person: Gerard Elfstrom Contact Email Address: elfstga@auburn.edu Contact Phone Number: (334) 844-3785 |
