Special Seminar of Sydney Brenner

USIAS Professor Pierre Chambon, chair of Biology and Molecular Genetics, has invited Professor Sydney Brenner to give a special seminar on Human Biology and Medicine: Future Direction of Biomedical Research at IGBMC on 31 July.

Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center (Salk Institute for Biological Research, California) is one of the leading pioneers in genetics and molecular biology. In 2002, he received the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for having established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology; a significant contributions to research on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology. Most recently, Brenner has been studying vertebrate gene and genome evolution.