[Sci-tech-public] Knight Seminars: November 16 and 18

[Debbie Meinbresse]

KNIGHT SEMINAR:  November 16 (MIT, E19-623)

Please note: this seminar will start at 4:30 pm

Human wars with microbes
Roberto Kolter, Harvard University





Dr. Roberto Kolter is Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics  
at Harvard Medical School, where he has been a faculty member since  
1983 and Co-Director of Harvard’s University wide Microbial Sciences  
Initiative since 2003.  Dr. Kolter has been an influential  
microbiologist for a period that spans four decades. As a graduate  
student in the 1970s he studied DNA replication.  At Harvard, he has  
worked on antibiotic synthesis, bacterial starvation physiology,  
experimental evolution, bacterial biofilms, and chemical communication  
in the microbial world.  Dr. Kolter has been involved in science  
teaching and policy worldwide.  He recently served as the President of  
the American Society for Microbiology, the oldest and largest single  
life science organization in the world.  He now serves as the Chair of  
the Public and Scientific Affairs Board of the American Society for  
Microbiology.  A native of Guatemala, Dr. Kolter earned his B.S. at  
Carnegie-Mellon University, his Ph.D. at University of California, San  
Diego and carried out post-doctoral training at Stanford University.


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KNIGHT SEMINAR:  November 18 (MIT, E19-623, 4:00 pm)

Nanotechnology: Building Blocks that are Living Things
Angela Belcher, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy







Debbie Meinbresse
Program Coordinator

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT
E19-623
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA  02139

617-253-3442
meinbres at mit.edu




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