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color="#007700"><b>BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Chipperfield Lecture</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Monday, May 8,
2006</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Dr. Elizabeth
Blackburn</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">University of
California, San Francisco</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">"Telomeres and
Telomerase: No End to the Story Yet"</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">32-123 Stata Center
Auditorium</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">4pm (refreshments at
3:30)</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Tahoma" size="+1">Hosted by the
Biology Graduate Students</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herzstein
Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry
and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, is a
leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research. She has broad
experience in the different aspects of telomere function and biology.
She discovered the ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. Hers is a
leading laboratory in manipulating telomerase activity in cells, and
she has amassed considerable knowledge and experience in the effects
this has on cells.<br>
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Dr. Blackburn and her research team at the University<br>
of California, San Francisco are working with a variety of organisms
and human cancer cells, with the goal of understanding telomerase and
telomere biology. Her work on telomeres and telomerase has been
published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Dr. Blackburn earned her B.Sc. (1970) and
M.Sc. (1972) degrees from the University of Melbourne in Australia,
and her Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Cambridge in England. She
did her postdoctoral work in Molecular and Cellular Biology from 1975
to 1977 at Yale.</font></div>
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