Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major ...
Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major Milestones in ...
03/16/2011 8:30 AM KresgeDavid A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and ...
Inside the Lab: Michael Hemann, Ph.D.
Inside the Lab: Michael Hemann, Ph.D.
Learn more about the Hemann lab's work in system biology and how they use high throughput genetics in model systems to screen for mechanisms of drug resistance.
Dendrite Morphogenesis and Channel Regulation: Implications ...
Dendrite Morphogenesis and Channel Regulation: Implications for Mental ...
05/28/2010 4:00 PM 46"3002Lily Jan, University of California, San Francisco; Yuh"Nung Jan, University of California, San FranciscoDescription: Lily and Yuh"Nung Jan have been pioneers in the field of molecular neurobiology for more than 30 years, and their genetic ...
Mouse Genetic Models of Schizophrenia
Mouse Genetic Models of Schizophrenia
05/07/2010 3:30 PM 46"3002Maria Karayiorgou, Columbia UniversityDescription: Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder that affects around 1% of the world's population. Maria Karayiorgou discusses the genetic origins of schizophrenia and describes progress in modeling the disorder ...
Sex Battles in the Brain
Sex Battles in the Brain
05/07/2010 10:30 AM 46"3002Catherine Dulac, Harvard UniversityDescription: The expression of certain genes depends on whether they were inherited from the mother or the father, a phenomenon known as imprinting. Catherine Dulac of Harvard University has discovered that a surprisingly large ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year.
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
"I'll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism."
Global Pandemics
Global Pandemics
In his role as a biochemist, Hidde Ploegh explains the "essential features of the lifestyle of the flu virus."
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 ...
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
This summer in Genomics, sixteen MITES students were transformed into research scientists. In groups of four, students researched monogenic disorders such as Early Onset Breast Cancer and sequenced the DNA of several individuals to discover novel human genetic ...
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between ...
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and ...
Researchers at MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by AMPS/MIT Libraries for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, "Learning Lab: The ...
New Lessons in Cancer Research
New Lessons in Cancer Research
10/24/2007 6:00 PM MuseumJacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Cancer is a conniving enemy. Try to kill it off through surgery or chemotherapy, and it finds a way to sneak back in. Jacqueline Lees tells an ...
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. ...
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
06/08/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Michael Yaffe, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Early on in his lecture, Michael Yaffe serves up an amazing fact: If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, then each time a cell divided, it would have to copy 568 ...
The RNAi Revolution
The RNAi Revolution
06/08/2006 10:30 AM 46-3002Phillip A. Sharp, HM, Institute Professor; Founding Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Description: When a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of molecular biology embraces a new area of research as revolutionary, attention must be paid. Phillip A. Sharp's own ...
Innovation Everywhere How the Acceleration of "GNR" ...
Innovation Everywhere How the Acceleration of "GNR" (genetics, ...
09/29/2005 3:30 PM Ray Kurzweil, '70, Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, IncDescription: Ray Kurzweil may be the closest thing we have to a crystal ball. And if anyone has the right to some credibility in the prognostication arena, this overachieving inventor ...
How Cancer Begins
How Cancer Begins
09/22/2003 McGovern AuditoriumRobert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: If you're worried about getting cancer, do yourself a favor: steer clear of red meat and rich foods, and avoid ...