James E. Rothman, Ph.D., the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and professor and chair of the Department of Cell Biology, will lecture on “The Principle of Membrane Fusion in the Cell,” on December 2 at 4 p.m. in Mary S. Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven.
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly on October 7 to Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” Rothman was honored for his work on how molecular messages are transmitted inside and outside of our cells. The award will be presented Nobel Prize Award Ceremony on December 10 in Stockholm.
Submitted by Liz Pantani on October 24, 2013