[bioundgrd] Fwd: A conversation with Boris Magasanik

[MacKenzie Outlund]

> From: Mandana Sassanfar <mandana at MIT.EDU>
> Date: April 23, 2007 4:18:54 PM EDT
> To: MacKenzie Outlund <moutlund at mit.edu>
> Subject: A conversation with Boris Magasanik
>
>>
>> Dear students,
>>
>> The department of biology is sponsoring a new lecture series :   
>> "Conversation with a scientist"
>>
>> The first of these conversations will take place tomorrow Tuesday  
>> April 24 in room 68-180 at 10:30 with Professor Boris Magasanik.   
>> It will be videotaped for archives.
>>
>> Professor Magasanik will be introduced by Gene Brown.  Graham  
>> Walker will moderate the session.
>>
>> Although this conversation is open to the public, we hope that  
>> most of the audience will consist of biology undergraduate and  
>> graduate students.
>>
>>  For those of you who want to learn more about Boris Magasanik  
>> before coming tomorrow, attached is a pdf of " A Charmed life".
>>
>> So come with questions or just for the opportunity to hear  
>> wonderful stories from one of the pioneers of molecular biology.
>>
>>
>>
>> A charmed life.
>>
>> Boris Magasanik was born in Kharkoff, Ukraine, on December 19,  
>> 1919. He received his preliminary and secondary education in  
>> Vienna, Austria, and studied chemistry at the University of Vienna  
>> in 1937. He continued his studies at City College, New York (BS,  
>> 1941) and after one semester of graduate study at Pennsylvania  
>> State University, served in the US Army in England and France from  
>> 1942-1945. He obtained his PhD degree in biochemistry from  
>> Columbia University in 1948. A faculty member in the Department of  
>> Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School from 1951 to  
>> 1960, he then continued his career as Professor of Microbiology at  
>> MIT where he served as head of the Department from 1967 to 1977.  
>> He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA in 1969  
>> and received the Selman A Waksman Award in 1993. He is currently  
>> the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus at MIT and is the author of  
>> over 240 publications dealing with microbial physiology and the  
>> regulation of gene expression in bacteria and yeast.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mandana Sassanfar, Ph.D.
>> Department of Biology
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> Building 68, Room 102C
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> Tel: (617) 452-4371
>> Fax: (617) 258-9329
>
>
> -- 
> Mandana Sassanfar, Ph.D.
> Department of Biology
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Building 68, Room 102C
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> Tel: (617) 452-4371
> Fax: (617) 258-9329

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