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1999 Renowned Yale Researcher to Present Gladstone Lecture on October 7 Yale molecular biologist Joan A. Steitz, PhD, will present the 1999 Gladstone Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics on Thursday, October 7. Her topic is "HuR and the Signaling of mRNA Stability in Mammalian Cells."
The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in Carr Auditorium, Building 3, on the campus of San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center. A reception will follow in the 5th floor library of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. Steitz is internationally recognized for her seminal research focusing on the structure and function of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles. These cellular complexes play a key role in RNA processing in mammals and involve some of the most basic biological processes for converting genetic information in the DNA into the active protein molecules of the living cell.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1970, Steitz currently holds an appointment as Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. She also leads the Molecular Genetics Program in the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Steitz is a recipient of the National Medal of Science and more recently served as Chair of the President’s Committee for this award. She also has been honored as one of 10 US scientists to receive the Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research (1992), as the first recipient of the Women and Science Award conferred by the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (1994), and as a recipient of The City of Medicine Award (1996), which recognizes outstanding achievements in medicine throughout the world. Steitz earned her BS at Antioch College and her PhD at Harvard University. She did postdoctoral work at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. Links: |
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