[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, May 1, 2007 @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr. John Rubenstein

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Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, May 1, 2007 @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr.
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KILLAM LECTURE

 

Speaker:           John Rubenstein, MD, PhD

                        Genetics, Development & Behavioral Sciences

                        The University of California at San Francisco

 

Title:                 Genetic Studies of Forebrain Development

 

Place:               de Grandpre Communications Centre

 

Date:                Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

 

Time:                4:00 pm

 

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I am delighted to invite all of you to attend the seminar by Dr. John
Rubenstein on Tuesday, May 1. Dr. Rubenstein, a Bay Area native, earned
a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Stanford University. As
an MD/PhD student at Stanford Medical School, he obtained a degree in
Biophysics, working with Harden McConnell and James Rothman on the
physical properties and biogenesis of cellular membranes. He then headed
to Paris where, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Pasteur Institute, he
worked with Francois Jacob, Jean Francois Nicolas, and Josh Sanes on the
use of antisense RNA and retroviral vectors to study molecular and
cellular mechanisms of mouse embryogenesis. He returned to Stanford as a
resident physician in child psychiatry. During his clinical fellowship,
he identified several important genes that regulate forebrain
development such as Dlx2 and Tbr1. He is currently the Nina Ireland
Distinguished Professor of Child Psychiatry at UCSF where his research
focuses on the regulatory genes that orchestrate development of the
forebrain. Among many important contributions, the Rubenstein's lab
characterized the role of a number of genes in regulating neuronal
specification, differentiation, migration and axon growth during
embryonic development and adult life. John was recently elected to the
prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
He is a terrific scientist and an engaging speaker and I am looking
forward to a fascinating seminar. I hope that you will be able to
attend.

 

Stefano Stifani