Harvard’s Marc Kirschner next Discovery Lecturer
Marc Kirschner, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt's Discovery Lecture Series continues next month with featured speaker Marc Kirschner, Ph.D., on Monday, Nov. 6.
Kirschner, professor and founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, will discuss “Protein Degradation and the Timing of Events in the Cell Cycle” at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
His laboratory studies how developing embryos orchestrate the multitude of signals to yield the final, complex organism. In particular, the lab is investigating the signals that tell cells when to divide.
Kirschner was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989 for his research on the cytoskeleton, molecular analysis of amphibian development and the control of the cell cycle during embryogenesis. He is also a member the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the E. B. Wilson Medal, the American Society of Cell Biology's highest scientific honor.
The lecture is also the Orrin Ingram Distinguished Lecture and the Cell and Developmental Biology Distinguished Faculty Lecture. A reception in the Light Hall lobby will follow the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture Series and archived videos, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.