Events Archive | Whitehead Institute Lecture Series
The Museum annually hosts dozens of special events featuring everything from astronauts to artists, robots to raptors. See who has joined us over the years for these special offerings; many listings include audio, video, and reference materials.
- The Evolution of Sex: Rethinking the Y Chromosome (Lecture)
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Over the last few decades, the male-specific Y chromosome, the runt of the genomic litter, has been diagnosed as terminally ill. Some scientists declared that in another 10 million years or so the Y will be gone altogether, taking males along with it. However, Dr. Page and his colleagues have found that ... (details).
With: David Page, PhD, director, Whitehead Institute; department of biology, MIT; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator .
This presentation is part of the ongoing Whitehead Institute Lecture Series.
March 27, 2007
- An Unexpected Interface: Protein Folding Driving Evolutionary Change (Lecture)
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Learn about Dr. Lindquist's recent work, which suggests that the forces that govern protein folding (when strings of amino acids fold into a functioning protein structure) exert a profound effect on how genetic information is translated into phenotypic traits. This folding process allows organisms to ... (details).
With: Susan Lindquist, PhD, department of biology, MIT; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; member and former director, Whitehead Institute.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Whitehead Institute Lecture Series.
March 20, 2007
- Evolution as a Tool Kit for Understanding Human Disease (Lecture)
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Comprehensive studies of genes and proteins from many organisms are giving us an extraordinary documentation of the history of life. We share thousands of individual genes and proteins with other eukaryotes (organisms with nucleated cells), all as a result of our common evolutionary history. Dr. Lodish ... (details).
With: Harvey Lodish, PhD, department of bioengineering, MIT; founding member, Whitehead Institute.
This presentation is part of the ongoing Whitehead Institute Lecture Series.
March 13, 2007
