[bioundgrd] today: BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM- Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn

[Rachel McPherson]

BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
Chipperfield Lecture
Monday, May 8, 2006
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn
University of California, San Francisco
"Telomeres and Telomerase: No End to the Story Yet"
32-123 Stata Center Auditorium
4pm (refreshments at 3:30)
Hosted by the Biology Graduate Students

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.

Dr. Blackburn and her research team at the University
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.

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.
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