Loma Linda University Graduate School News
December 2, 1999
Nobel prize winner will lecture
at microbiology seminar on January 13
Nobel prize winner Richard J. Roberts, PhD, research director at New
England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts, will be guest speaker at the
Loma Linda University Basic Science Seminar Thursday, January 13, 2000.
The seminar will take place from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. in the Wong Kerlee
International Conference Center. Dr. Roberts will speak again at 3:00
p.m. the same day to the biotechnology interest group.
Dr. Roberts won the 1993 Nobel prize in medicine. He was born and educated
in England, attending Saint Stephen's School and the City of Bath Boys'
School before moving to the University of Sheffield where he obtained
a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1965 and a doctor of philosophy degree
in organic chemistry in 1968.
His postdoctoral research was carried out in the laboratory of J. L. Strominger,
PhD, at Harvard University, Boston, where he studied the tRNAs that are
involved in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls.
Dr. Roberts has been involved in many projects, including studies of Adenovirus-2,
beginning with studies of transcription that led to the discovery of split
genes and mRNA splicing in 1977.
This was followed by efforts to deduce the DNA sequence of the Adenovirus-2
genome and a complete sequence of 35,937 nucleotides was obtained.
This latter project required the extensive use of computer methods, both
for the assembly of the sequence and its subsequent analysis.
While on the Loma Linda campus, Dr. Roberts is being hosted by the department
of microbiology and molecular genetics, School of Medicine, and Junichi
Ryu, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics.
Further information about Dr. Roberts visit may be obtained by calling
the department of microbiology and molecular genetics at (909) 558-1000,
extension 42773.
All contents copyright © 2001 Loma Linda
University. All rights reserved.
Revised
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:15 PM
Send comments and questions to webmaster@univ.llu.edu
URL: /