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West Texas Medical Associates Distinguished Lectureship in Science honoring Dr. Roy E. MoonMarch 22, 2011 C. J. Davidson Conference Center in the Houston Harte University Center |
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| This year's speaker Susan Lindquist is the former Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow of the American Cancer Society. She was named the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in 1999 at the University of Chicago. Dr. Lindquist studies the ways that protein fold.This has profound and completely unexpected effects on normal biology and disease. She found that a specific protein has affects on genetic variation, fueling evolutionary mechanisms as diverse as malignant transformation and the emergence of drug resistance. More recently she has built genetic models of complex protein misfolding diseases, including Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, which are providing new insights on the underlying pathogenic mechanisms. |
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Guidelines You actually have to do some work to earn the extra credit points. The guidelines are posted here. To earn credit this assignment must be turned in no later than March 29. |
| Dr. Roy E. Moon practiced medicine in San Angelo for many years. You can read more about him here. |
Two Lectures?You only need to attend one of the two lectures. The 2:00 lecture is supposed to be aimed at biologists and medical professionals. The 8:00 lecture is for the general public. You may attend either lecture. |
