Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture
Tuesday, April 4th, 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.
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
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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Research Lecture at Nobel Forum
16 Februari, kl. 16.30
Michael S. Levine
Professor of Molecular Biology
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
http://molbio.princeton.edu/faculty/molbio-faculty/891-levine
Title: “Visualization and evolution of transcriptional enhancers in animal development”
ABSTRACT
Transcriptional enhancers are short segments of DNA that switch genes on and off in response to a variety of intrinsic and external signals. During
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