[bioundgrd] REMINDER: "A Conversation with Boris Magasanik" - TODAY

[Gurukarm Khalsa]

The first of a new lecture series:  "Conversation with a scientist",  
opens with Prof. Boris Magasanik in room 68-180 at 10:30 TODAY, and  
will be videotaped for archives.

Please come and enjoy hearing about the history of microbiology,  
molecular biology, and the Department of Biology at MIT.



From: "A charmed life" (Annual Review of Microbiology, 1994)

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 of Biology 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.

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