Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner to Speak at Vanderbilt Today

Today The Vanderbilt Discovery Lecture series starts with 2002 Nobel Prize winner Professor Sydney Brenner speaking on the next 100 years in Biology at 4PM (CST) in 208 Light Hall.

Professor Brenner shared to 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on "discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death". He also discovered messenger RNA and proved the triplet code with Francis Crick. The triplet code is the normal version of the genetic code in which a sequence of three nucleotides codes for the synthesis of a specific amino acid. He also worked at the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge University where 27 other Nobel laureates have worked including James Watson and Francis Crick who discovered the DNA double helix structure. He also established the use of the round worm C. Elegans as a model organism for the investigation of animal development.

This is free and open to the public and I urge anyone interested to attend but if you cannot make it the Vanderbilt Website will Webcast it starting at 310pm(CST). I will be there and will post notes on the lecture and a link to the archived webcast.

Update: Vanderbilt has posted the speech online win WMA and Real Audio format. (just over an hour long)

Write up in the Vanderbilt Medical Center Reporter