Cobb to deliver year’s first Discovery Lecture
Melanie Cobb, Ph.D., whose research focuses on cellular regulatory mechanisms including the MAP kinase signaling cascade, will deliver the first Discovery Lecture of 2010 on Thursday, Jan. 14.
The lecture, sponsored by the Departments of Pharmacology and Cell and Developmental Biology, is entitled “MAPquest — from cancer to diabetes.” It will begin at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
Melanie Cobb, Ph.D.
Cobb is a professor of Pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she holds the Jane and Bill Browning Jr. Chair in Medical Science and is the Haberecht Dean of the Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Max Planck Award and the ASPET Goodman and Gilman Award in Drug Receptor Pharmacology.
Her research interests include protein kinase cascades, MAP and WNK kinases, signaling specificity and signal transduction in pancreatic beta cells.
For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.