Nobel Laureate set to speak
Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D.
Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate and president of The Rockefeller University, will deliver the next Vanderbilt Discovery Lecture on Monday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
In his talk, "Controlling the Cell Cycle,” Nurse will discuss the advances in understanding the orderly set of events by which one cell becomes two — the cell cycle.
In the 1970s, Nurse identified a gene in yeast, cdc2, that controls the progression of the cell cycle. In 1987, he identified the homologous human gene, CDK1. For his contributions, Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nurse is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998, he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture Series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.