NEWS Ada E. Yonath, one of the receipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will be making a special visit to Umeå University on the 16th of December. She will deliver a lecture to students, staff and members of the public at 3:00 p.m.
Ada Yonath’s lecture has the title “The amazing ribosome.” Please note that there are a limited number of seats for this lecture, so we strongly advise you to arrive early. A meeting for members of the press will be held prior to the lecture, contact Karin Wikman for further information.
Ada Yonath and Fredrik Almqvist, professor of organic chemistry, first met two months ago at an international conference in San Sebastian, Spain. They discovered mutual points of interest between Umeå University’s leading research on infections and Ada Yonath’s top-level work on ribosomes.
“We decided that she would visit Umeå University the next time she was Europe,” explained Dr. Fredrik Almqvist. “Just a few days later it was known that Ada Yonath would be visiting Sweden in the near future - to accept the Nobel Prize.”
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards studies of one of life's core processes: the ribosome's translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry in all living organisms. As ribosomes are crucial to life, they are also a major target for new antibiotics.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three researchers: Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.”
Read more about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/press.htmlVisit Ada Yonath’s homepage:
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/sb/faculty_pages/Yonath/home.html
Time: 16 December at 13.00 (1:00 p.m.)
Place: Universitetsklubben, Universum
Time: 16 December at 15.00 (3:00 p.m.)Place: Aula Nordica, Universum
Webpage: http://www.teknat.umu.se/english/about-the-faculty/news/nobel-lecture/
Please note that there are a limited number of seats for this lecture, so we strongly advise you to arrive early.
Karin Wikman, Information Office at the Faculty of Science and TechnologyPhone: +46 (0)90-786 60 24Mobile: +46 (0)70-6100805
E-mail: karin.wikman@adm.umu.se
Editor: Karin Wikman