CANCELED - Nobel Laureate Lecture - Dr. David Baltimore
CANCELLED
This event has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
11:00am general lecture, 4:00pm technical lecture via Zoom
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Our Nobel Laureate Speaker for 2021 is Dr. David Baltimore, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell." All are welcome to attend.
About Dr. Baltimore's Work
After Renato Dulbecco discovered that tumor viruses operate by incorporating their DNA into the DNA of host cells, David Baltimore and Howard Temin - independently of one another - discovered that viruses with genomes consisting of RNA can also be inserted into host cells' DNA. This takes place through an enzyme known as "reverse transcriptase". The discovery that the information in RNA can be transferred to DNA meant that the generally accepted rule that genetic information was only transferred in one direction - from DNA to RNA, to protein - had to be modified.
From David Baltimore – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2021. Tue. 16 Mar 2021.
