Photo Opportunity: 4.50 pm, Tuesday 28 May, MSI Large Lecture Theatre, University of Dundee.
Professor Marc Kirschner from Harvard Medical School will deliver the annual Adam Neville lecture after the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to open the Post Genome Centre at the University of Dundee tomorrow.
Marc Kirshner will kick off the School of Life Sciences season of public lectures with his presentation on "Proteolysis and the Cell Cycle".
Professor Kirschner is chairman of the Department of Biology and a founder of Harvard Medical School's Institute for Chemistry and Cell Biology. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his position at Harvard, he was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
The Kirschner laboratory has several major research interests, including how cells divide and the mechanisms that establish the human body plan. Marc Kirschner is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London and a foreign member of Academia Europea. He was the 2001 recipient of the William C. Rose Award, presented by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and in the same year received the prestigious Canadian Gairdner Foundation prize.
The Adam Neville Lecture is held in honour of the Principal of the University of Dundee from 1978-1987 who realised that research excellence in the Life Sciences was the key to the University's future.
Professor Kirschner's lecture will take place on Tuesday 28 May at 5 pm in the MSI Large Lecture Theatre, MSI/WTB Complex, University of Dundee.
Contact Angela Nicoll, School of Life Sciences 01382 348377