November 13, 2003
Nobel Laureate to Speak at Biomedical Symposium
EVANSTON, Ill.
--- Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard will deliver the keynote address
at a special public symposium, “Signaling:
From Cells to Systems,” Friday, Nov. 14, celebrating the
dedication of the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-Evanston Northwestern
Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion at Northwestern University. The
dedication ceremony will follow.
The free symposium,
to be held from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the pavilion’s Abbott
Laboratories Auditorium, will feature distinguished guest speakers
including Teresa Woodruff, associate professor of
neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern. Eight of the 11 speakers
are Northwestern alumni.
Greengard,
a neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University who received the
2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his
discovery of how dopamine and other transmitters in the brain exert
their action in the nervous system, will speak from 3:15 to 4 p.m.
on “Signal Integration in the Brain.”
Topics of
the sessions preceding Greengard’s address are
as follows: Session one, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., “Signaling and
the Control of Gene Expression;” session two, 11 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., “Cell and Molecular Biology of Macromolecular
Complexes;” and session three, 1:30 to 3 p.m., “Systems
and Integrative Biology.”
The Pancoe-ENH
dedication ceremony and reception will be held at 4:15 p.m. on
the building’s second floor, concluding the
day’s events.
Because seating is limited in the auditorium, the entire symposium
will be simulcast live to the fourth floor conference room in the
Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, 2190 Campus
Drive, Evanston. In addition, the keynote address will be simulcast
live to Lecture Room 2 in the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan
Road, Evanston. |