[bioundgrd] Robert Haselkorn - March 12th 5:30-6:30pm

[Janice Chang]

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>Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: Robert Haselkorn
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>The MIT Global Education Office and Phi Beta Kappa invite you to a 
>lecture by Professor Robert Haselkorn on the following topic:
>An enzyme that is the key to suppressing grassy weeds, treating 
>parasite diseases of people and controlling obesity
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>Thursday, March 12, 2009
>5:30pm-6:30pm
>Room 1-190
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>ROBERT HASELKORN
>University of Chicago
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>Robert Haselkorn is the F. L. Pritzker Distinguished Service 
>Professor of molecular genetics and cell biology at Chicago and a 
>recipient of the university's Quantrell Award for excellence in 
>undergraduate teaching. A member of the National Academy of Sciences 
>as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he 
>is past president of the International Society for Plant Molecular 
>Biology. His research interests lie in the areas of cellular 
>differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, in bacterial 
>genomics, and in the workings of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase 
>in plants, parasites, and people.
>He is a recipient of the Darbaker Prize of the Botanical Society of 
>America for his contributions to understanding the molecular biology 
>of nitrogen fixation in blue-green algae, and of the Mendel Medal in 
>Biological Sciences of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences. 
>Currently a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods 
>Hole, he was for many years a scientific advisor to the 
>International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 
>located in Italy and India.
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>We hope you can join us!
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>Sarra Shubart
>Global Education Office
>GECDC
>77 Massachusetts Avenue, 12-189
>Cambridge, MA 02139
><http://web.mit.edu/studyabroad/>http://web.mit.edu/studyabroad/
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>617-253-6057
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