[BIC-announce] FW: Dorothy J. Killam and Gairdner International Award Lectures, Oct 21

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Subject: Dorothy J. Killam and Gairdner International Award Lectures,
Oct 21
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Dear Colleagues,

The Dorothy J. Killam and Gairdner International Award lectures will
start at 2 pm on Tuesday, October 21 in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre.
MNI faculty and students are strongly encouraged to attend this
afternoon of science.  McGill Professor Nahum Sonenberg will deliver his
Gairdner International Award lecture and Dr. Ulrich Hartl, Director of
the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, will also speak.  Princeton
astrophysicist Alicia Soderberg is the Dorothy J. Killam lecturer.
Please see the program below for more details and plan to join us for
these 3 lectures. 

 

Dorothy J. Killam Lecture 

 

2:00 pm    Birth of a Supernova: X-rays mark the spot

    Alicia Soderberg 

                        

                Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow

                Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton
University  

 

Gairdner International Award Lectures          

 

3:15 pm    Translational control in biology and medicine 

                Nahum Sonenberg 

 

                2008 Gairdner International Awardee

                McGill Cancer Centre and Department of Biochemistry,
McGill University  

                

4:30 pm    Protein folding in the cell: Role of molecular chaperones in
health and disease

                Ulrich Hartl

 

                2004 Gairdner Laureate 

                Director, Max-Planck Institute, Germany 

 

5:30 pm    Reception 

 

The Gairdner International Awards are highly prestigious prizes given to
Canadian and international scientists by the Gairdner Foundation. Since
it was established in 1957, the Foundation has recognized the work of
288 scientists, of whom 70 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in
medicine or chemistry. 

 

Elizabeth Kofron, PhD

Associate Director

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Suite 636 

3801 University Street

Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 2B4

 

Tel:  514-398-2316

Fax: 514-398-8248

elizabeth.kofron at mcgill.ca

 

Assistant: 514-398-1903

 

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