Photo Opportunity: 12.50pm, Medical Science Institute Small Lecture Theatre. (Enter through main reception of Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
The Adam Neville Lecture in the School of Life Sciences will be presented by Dr Gerald Hart, DeLamar Professor and Director of Biological Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. Dr Hart received his PhD from Kansas State University and continued his research at the University of Alabama Medical CTR before taking up his current position at Johns Hopkins in 1997.
The Hart laboratory is famous for its discovery of a special type of 'protein glycosylation', the addition of sugars to protein, that, along with protein phosphorylation (a speciality of Dundee University), helps control cell metabolism in health and disease. Dr Hart's fundamental and pioneering research beautifully complements activities in The Wellcome Trust Biocentre and scientists in Dundee are delighted to host his visit to The City of Dundee.
In 1997, Dr Hart was the first recipient of the International Glycoconjugate Organisation Awards, an honour subsequently shared by Prof. Mike Ferguson of Dundee University in 1999.
The Adam Neville Lecture is held in honour of the Principal of the University of Dundee from 1978-1987 who had the foresight to realise that research excellence in the Life Sciences was the key to the University's future and who provided the financial backing and support that allowed the then fledgling Department of Biochemistry to survive and eventually to prosper. Although much criticised at the time, his decisions have been vindicated by subsequent events. Without his help developments such as the Wellcome Trust Biocentre would never have happened.
Dr Hart's presentation is entitled "Dynamic Interplay Between O-GlcNAc and O-Phosphate: Roles in Diabetes, Stress Survival, and Neurodegenerative Disease" and will take place on Friday, 2 at 1pm in the MSI Small Lecture Theatre, MSI/WTB Complex, University of Dundee.
By Jane Smernicki, Press Officer 01382 344768 j.m.smernicki@dundee.ac.uk