Photo Credit: Ana C. Anderson Lab, Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Scientist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and core faculty member of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases. On February 28, 2019, we had the honor of hosting Dr. Ana...
Photo Credit : HHMI, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the Rockefeller University December 13, 2018, we had the honor of hosting cell biologist Elaine Fuchs as a McClintock lecturer. Fuchs was born and raised in Illinois and earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois (where,...
Professor and Project Leader at John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Cellular and developmental biologist Caroline Dean studies the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms by which external temperature regulates the timing of plant reproduction, increasingly relevant with global climate change affecting crop production. Her work has led to important insights into chromatin regulation and evolutionary adaptation...
Photos Credit: Jue X. Wang, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder January 11, 2018 On January 11, we hosted biochemical engineer Dr. Kristi S. Anseth as our first McClintock lecturer of 2018. In her position as Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Faculty Director of...
Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dr. Greider’s lab is focused on understanding telomerase and cellular and organismal consequences of telomere dysfunction. To examine telomere function, her lab uses biochemistry assays, yeast, and mice. Carol discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, and was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, along...
