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Stress and Aging in Neurodegenerative Disease
Initial presentation of the Fall 2006 Biology seminar series
Lake Forest, Ill. - Dr. Richard Morimoto, a world authority on the biology of stress and protein folding, will deliver a public lecture at Lake Forest College on Wednesday, September 27, at 4 pm.
Aimed at a general audience, Dr. Morimoto’s presentation titled “Stress and Aging in Neurodegenerative Disease” will be held in Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall. The public is welcome to attend free of charge. A pre-seminar reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. Please call 847-735-6010 for more information.
Dr. Morimoto is the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology at Northwestern University. Morimoto served as dean of the Graduate School and associate provost of graduate education from 1998 to 2004 and previously as chair of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology. He is the director of the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research at Northwestern.
He conducts research on how the stress of misfolded proteins leads to the neurodegenerative disorders Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Dr. Morimoto has written more than 190 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters on this topic. A frequent speaker at invited symposia and seminars around the world, Morimoto has been a visiting professor at the Technion Institute in Israel, the Ecole Normale Superieur in France, the University of Rome, Peking University and Kyoto University.
Among his numerous honors, Morimoto is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and member of the national advisory council for NIH General medical sciences. Morimoto has received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Huntington Award from the Huntington Disease Society of America. His research has been supported by the National Institutes for General Medical Science, National Institutes of Aging, National Institutes for Neurological Diseases and Stroke, American Cancer Society, ALS Society of America and NATO.
The event is sponsored by the Lake Forest College Biology Department, Eukaryon (the undergraduate journal of life sciences scholarship at Lake Forest College), and the Center for Chicago Programs.
Preview the entire Fall 2006 Biology Department seminar series.
Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 47 states and 54 countries.
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Contact: Irene Ratliff
847-735-6010
ratliff@lakeforest.edu
Aimed at a general audience, Dr. Morimoto’s presentation titled “Stress and Aging in Neurodegenerative Disease” will be held in Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall. The public is welcome to attend free of charge. A pre-seminar reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. Please call 847-735-6010 for more information.
Dr. Morimoto is the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology at Northwestern University. Morimoto served as dean of the Graduate School and associate provost of graduate education from 1998 to 2004 and previously as chair of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology. He is the director of the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research at Northwestern.
He conducts research on how the stress of misfolded proteins leads to the neurodegenerative disorders Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Dr. Morimoto has written more than 190 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters on this topic. A frequent speaker at invited symposia and seminars around the world, Morimoto has been a visiting professor at the Technion Institute in Israel, the Ecole Normale Superieur in France, the University of Rome, Peking University and Kyoto University.
Among his numerous honors, Morimoto is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and member of the national advisory council for NIH General medical sciences. Morimoto has received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and the Huntington Award from the Huntington Disease Society of America. His research has been supported by the National Institutes for General Medical Science, National Institutes of Aging, National Institutes for Neurological Diseases and Stroke, American Cancer Society, ALS Society of America and NATO.
The event is sponsored by the Lake Forest College Biology Department, Eukaryon (the undergraduate journal of life sciences scholarship at Lake Forest College), and the Center for Chicago Programs.
Preview the entire Fall 2006 Biology Department seminar series.
Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 47 states and 54 countries.
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Contact: Irene Ratliff
847-735-6010
ratliff@lakeforest.edu
