Join us at the Linda Hall Library for An Evening with Nobel Laureate Dr. Carol Greider as she discusses her groundbreaking research on telomeres.
We have long known the role of telomeres – the ends of chromosomes – in many age-related degenerative diseases, as well as a person’s predisposition to cancer. For decades, scientists have been working to develop technology that enables the sequencing of DNA in a way that can manipulate telomeres, potentially preventing age-related diseases and cancer.
On October 7 at the Linda Hall Library, Carol W. Greider, Ph. D., 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner, will speak about her team’s discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that protects chromosomes, and how they later uncovered its RNA component. An Evening with Nobel Laureate Carol Greider: How New Technology Shifts Old Paradigms is free and open to the public for in-person and virtual registration.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1983, Dr. Greider earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she and her colleague, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, first discovered telomerase. Dr. Greider shares the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Blackburn and Jack Szostake. She is also the recipient of many awards and honors for her contributions to science, including the Richard Lounsbery Award, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University, and the Pinnacle Award from the Association for Women in Science.
Dr. Greider currently serves as the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In her research at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Greider’s group continued to study telomerase and determined the secondary structure of the human telomerase RNA. In addition, they characterized the loss of telomere function in mice, which provided insight into age-related degenerative diseases in humans, including bone marrow failure, pulmonary fibrosis, and other conditions.
An Evening with Nobel Laureate Carol Greider: How New Technology Shifts Old Paradigms takes place from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM on October 7 at the Linda Hall Library, located at 5109 Cherry Street in Kansas City, MO. Parking is free in Library parking lots.
