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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Tania A. Baker, Ph.D., E.C. Whitehead Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Dr. Baker’s current research explores mechanisms and regulation of enzyme-catalyzed protein unfolding, ATP-dependent protein degradation, and remodeling of the proteome during cellular stress responses. She received her B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983 and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University in 1988, where she was a member of Dr. Arthur Kornberg’s laboratory. Her graduate research focused on mechanisms of initiation of DNA replication. She did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Kiyoshi Mizuuchi at the National Institutes of Health, studying the mechanism and regulation of DNA transposition. She joined MIT’s faculty in 1992 as assistant professor and has served terms as both the associate head and head of MIT’s department of biology.

 

A Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Dr. Baker has received numerous honors for her work, including the MIT School of Science Teaching Prize for Undergraduate Education in 2000, the Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2001, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stanford Medical Center Alumni Association in 2014. In 2008, she was elected a MacVicar Faculty Fellow for her contributions to education. Dr. Baker is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Society for Microbiology. She is coauthor with Dr. Kornberg of the second edition of the book DNA Replication as well as of the fifth, sixth, and seventh editions of Watson's influential text Molecular Biology of the Gene. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children, and enjoys sea kayaking and fiber arts.

Open to

Public

Host

Hermann Steller, Ph.D.

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Justin Sloboda

Phone

(212) 327-7785

Sponsor

Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=4203