Event Detail (Archived)
Clues to Mechanisms of RNA Splicing and Retrotransposition from Ancient Group II Introns
The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Event Details
- Type
- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D., William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, professor of chemistry, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Pyle received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Columbia University in 1990, where she worked with Professor Jacqueline K. Barton. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Thomas Cech at the University of Colorado. Dr. Pyle formed her own research group in 1992 in the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University Medical Center. In 2002, she moved to Yale University, where she leads a research group that specializes in determining the structure and function of large RNA molecules and protein enzymes that operate on RNA. At Brookhaven National Laboratory, she serves on the science and technology steering committee and on Beamline Advisory Teams at the NSLSII light source. She is on the scientific advisory board of Arrakis Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Pyle is the co-editor of Methods in Enzymology and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Biology.
- Open to
- Public
- Host
- Seth Darst, Ph.D.
- Reception
- Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge
- Contact
- Justin Sloboda
- Phone
- (212) 327-7785
- Sponsor
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Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu