Lecture Archive

CANCELLED

Research Lecture at Nobel Forum    Free admission

 12 October,CANCELLED

Michael W. Young

Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor
Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University
New York, USA

http://lab.rockefeller.edu/young/

Title: “Genetic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms”

Dr. Young studies circadian (~24 hour) clocks, which are endogenous mechanisms that time the recurring, daily activities observed in most organisms. Young’s research has shown how interactions among
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Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture

Tuesday, April 4^th, 2017, at 4.30

Stanley B. Prusiner
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1997

Title: Quest for prion therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases

Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s diseases (PD) are the most common neuro-degenerative diseases (ND). Increasing evidence argues that both AD and PD are caused by prions. Ab and tau proteins undergo changes in conformation
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Research Lecture at Nobel Forum                              

6 April, 16.30

Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D.

National Institute of Biological Sciences, #7 Science Park Road, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing 102206, China.

http://www.nibs.ac.cn

Title: “Programmed Cell Death in Diseases and Aging”

The longest ongoing research program of our laboratory studies apoptosis, i.e. caspase-mediated cell death. One of our most surprising findings of these
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Research Lecture at Nobel Forum
16 March, 16.30

Hidde L. Ploegh                                                              

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
9 Cambridge Center, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02142, USA

http://ploeghlab.wi.mit.edu

 Title: “Imaging immunity”

Recent work in my laboratory has focused on applications of camelid-derived single domain antibodies. These protein, also referred to as VHHs or nanobodies, are small (~12 kDa), do not have a stringent requirement
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