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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
06/07/2006 1:00 PM 46-3002Angelika Amon, Associate Professor of Biology, MIT;; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: We all start out as a single fertilized cell, and wind up, as fully formed humans, with 10 to the 13th cells. -The name of the game," says Angelika Amon, is ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos"
The 2001 MIT Technology Day takse place on June 9, 2001, on the theme "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos." Featured speakers include Eric S. Lander, "The Human Genome and Beyond;" Claude R. Canizares, "The Origin of the Universe;" Maria T. Zuber, "Probing ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical Applications
03/16/2011 1:30 PM KresgeRichard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; ...
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 ...
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
05/04/2009 3:00 PM 46"3002Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: In contrast to cardiovascular disease, few breakthrough remedies for psychiatric illness have emerged in the past ...
Metastasis
Metastasis
06/07/2006 1:45 PM 46-3002Richard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: No diagnosis of cancer is welcome, but some scenarios are more dreaded than others. Richard Hynes discusses ...
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.
Keynote Presentation: Academic Perspectives
Keynote Presentation: Academic Perspectives
01/09/2004 10:15 AM Wong AuditoriumLeroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems BiologyDescription: Very simply stated, systems biology attempts to "capture the dynamic nature of living systems." To accomplish this, says Hood, you "have to bring together the flavors ...
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
06/07/2006 8:30 AM 46-3002Robert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: During the human lifetime, there are 10 million billion cell divisions and each division represents, as Robert Weinberg puts ...
Introduction and Overview
Introduction and Overview
06/07/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; ; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Description: This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part ...
Immunology and Cancer
Immunology and Cancer
06/08/2006 9:00 AM 46-3002Jianzhu Chen, Cottrell Professor of Biology;; Professor of ImmunologyDescription: Jianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against pathogens: ...
Human Genetics: Our Past and Our Future
Human Genetics: Our Past and Our Future
11/15/2005 6:00 PM MuseumDavid Altshuler, '86, Founding Member, and Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolDescription: Will genomics vanquish our most common diseases, or create a society ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...