Presentations

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D. 
President and Founding Director, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School 
Professor of Biology, MIT

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D. 
President and Founding Director, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School 
Professor of Biology, MIT

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D. 
President and Founding Director, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School 
Professor of Biology, MIT

During the last few decades, scientists have begun to solve one of the greatest puzzles of all time: Why do we age? It turns out that aging, like so much else in biology, is subject to regulation by the genes; in this case, by genes encoding familiar...

A T cell-mediated immune response is initiated by the T cell receptor (TCR) interacting with peptide-bound MHC (pMHC) on an infected cell. The mechanism by which this interaction triggers intracellular phosphorylation of the TCR, which lacks a kinase...

How can we use genomics to fill out the picture of human evolution sketched by the fossil record? Over the past 25 years, Pääbo’s laboratory developed techniques for extracting and analyzing DNA from Pleistocene fossil remains. He has used those...

Steven Chu
United States Secretary of Energy

Deciphering the molecular basis of pluripotency is fundamental to our understanding of mammalian development and embryonic stem cell biology. Will discuss novel transcriptional mechanisms governing ESC gene expression and describe core promoter...

John Kuriyan
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
HHMI Investigator
University of California, Berkeley

Why did humans evolve the capacity for language? To investigate the FOXP2 gene that encodes a transcription factor involved in the development of speech and language in humans, Pääbo modified the gene’s analog in mice by adding sequences found only in the...

Over the past 25 years, our laboratory has developed of techniques for extracting and analyzing DNA from Pleistocene fossil remains. We recently produced a draft genome sequence from Neandertals, who lived in western Eurasia until becoming extinct around...