Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
09/19/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: Through her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to some ...
Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and ...
Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and Disease
04/24/2007 4:30 PM 32-123H. Robert Horvitz, '68, David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MITDescription: A microscopic roundworm has come to play a dominant role in some of the most pivotal medical research of our time. In the labs of Robert Horvitz and his colleagues, C. ...
Whitehead director talks Y chromosome with Stephen Colbert
Whitehead director talks Y chromosome with Stephen Colbert
Whitehead Institute Director David Page appears on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to engage in a little lively banter about the future of the human Y chromosome.
Where Biology and Geology Meet
Where Biology and Geology Meet
Geobiologist, and Hayes Career Dev. Assoc. Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Tanja Bosak studies microbial fossils to understand the parallel evolution of life and the environment. She also undertakes laboratory experiments on modern microbes to ...
Visualizing Science: Through The Lens
Visualizing Science: Through The Lens
Discussion with panelists: Caroline Jones, Felice Frankel, Christopher Turner. Recorded on 5/22/12.
Vision of the Future (Part 2)
Vision of the Future (Part 2)
12/01/2005 10:45 AM picower atrium 3rd floorEric R. Kandel, University Professor, and Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, Columbia University 2000 Nobel; James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1965 Nobel Description: If the century just ...
Vision of the Future (Part 1)
Vision of the Future (Part 1)
12/01/2005 9:00 AM picower atrium 3rd floorIra Flatow, Host/Executive Producer, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday ; Susumu Tonegawa, Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; ; Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences; ...
Uttam RajBhandary - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Uttam RajBhandary - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Memorial service and symposium in honor of H. Gobind Khorana, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus. Speaker: Uttam Rajbhandary, Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology, MIT
Uttam RajBhandary - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Uttam RajBhandary - Symposium in Memory of H. Gobind Khorana
Memorial service and symposium in honor of H. Gobind Khorana, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus. Welcome by Uttam Rajbhandary, Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology, MIT
UROP profile: Kamena Kostova
UROP profile: Kamena Kostova
An MIT undergraduate shares her experience doing cancer research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, through MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Dr. Nozomi Ando conducts research on a protein that is essential for DNA synthesis, repair and replication. She explains how this protein is in equilibrium between an active and an inactive form, and how discovering strategies to lock the protein in the inactive ...
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in which small pieces of silencing RNA (siRNA) bind to cellular RNA, thereby shutting down the production of the encoded protein.
Transforming the Next Century
Transforming the Next Century
05/23/2003 3:45 PM KresgeRafael Reif, Provost, and Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science; Tomas Lozano- Perez, '73, SM '77, PhD '80, TIBCO Founders Professor of Computer Science and Engineering ; Jeffrey H. Shapiro, '67, SM '68, EE '69, PhD '70, Julius A. Stratton Professor ...
The Science of IPS Cells
The Science of IPS Cells
Biologist James Thompson and others discuss the discovery of IPS cells: the science and the potential for research and personalized medicine.
The Power of Basic Science Applied to Medical Progress: ...
The Power of Basic Science Applied to Medical Progress: Past Examples and ...
10/22/2009 4:00 PM 26"100Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: An exemplar of the purpose"driven life in medical science, Ed Scolnick details research milestones from a ...
The Origin of the Universe The Human Genome and Beyond
The Origin of the Universe The Human Genome and Beyond
06/09/2001 KresgeClaude Canizares, VP for Research, Associate Provost; Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteHost(s): Alumni Association, Alumni Association
The Many Facets of NF-Kappa B
The Many Facets of NF-Kappa B
03/23/2001 10"250Dr. David Baltimore, President, California Institute of TechnologyDescription: California Institute of Technology President and Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore delivered the 2001 Howard Hughes Lecture entitled The Many Facets of NF"Kappa B on Friday March 23, 2001. The ...
The Implications of Synthetic Biology
The Implications of Synthetic Biology
03/21/2006 6:00 PM MuseumAndrew (Drew) Endy, Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological EngineeringDescription: There's no mistaking Drew Endy's profession: "I like to make things -- that's what I do." From his engineer's perspective, the slow and painful methods of bioengineering demand a ...
The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project
02/16/2001 10"250Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Dr. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist and a mathematician, with research interests in human genetics, mouse genetics, population ...
The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome
The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Rotting Y Chromosome
12/08/2003 4:00 PM McGovern AuditoriumDavid C. Page, Associate Director of Science, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MITDescription: According to David Page, "the Y chromosome is the Rodney Dangerfield of the human genome." Regarded for 50 years as a genetic ...