[Mitworld] Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Catherine Dulac

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 49 |  July 19, 2010

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Lunch with a Laureate: Jack Szostak
April 28, 2010

Jack Szostak started his first lab as a “freshly minted assistant professor” working in DNA 
recombination and repair reactions. While researchers had known for years that the broken ends of 
DNA strands behaved differently from broken DNA in the middle of the strand, they did not know the 
details. Szostak details his research journey that led to amazing discoveries, and the 2009 Nobel Prize
in Medicine.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/801

Speaker:
Jack W. Szostak
Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General HospitalHoward Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

2009 Nobel Laureate in Medicine 


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"[The origins of life] is an unusual kind of science because we can’t go back and watch what 
 happened. I don’t think we can ever be sure of exactly how life got started on our planet. "
-Jack Szostak

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Sex Battles in the Brain
May 7, 2010

The expression of certain genes depends on whether they were inherited from the mother or the 
father, a phenomenon known as imprinting. Catherine Dulac has discovered that a surprisingly 
large number of brain genes are imprinted, often in complex ways. Her findings have broad 
implications for understanding the inheritance of behavioral traits and disease susceptibility.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/798

Speaker:
Catherine Dulac
Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"Clearly, there is a different contribution of the maternal and the paternal genome to brain 
development. And there is also a different contribution of the maternal and paternal genome to 
different parts of the adult brain. And what this suggests is that the repertoire of imprinted 
genes coming from mom and coming from dad is likely to be different in different brain areas.
"
-Catherine Dulac

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In The Pipeline:

A Volume Control for the Sense of Smell

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 Cells, Circuits, and Behavior

Speaker:
Rachel Wilson
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

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