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Lake Forest, Ill. - Dr. Robert Lamb, a world authority on the molecular biology of viruses, will deliver a public lecture at Lake Forest College on Monday, March 5, at 4 pm.

Aimed at a general audience, Dr. lamb’s presentation titled “Extreme Nanomachines: Protein Refolding Drives Membrane Fusion by The Paramyxovirus Fusion Protein” 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. Lamb is the John Evans Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology at Northwestern University, Professor of Microbiology-Immunology at Northwestern University Medical School, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, England, and his Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He came to the United States to do postdoctoral work at the Rockefeller University, where he later became a faculty member before joining the faculty of Northwestern University.

Robert Lamb's laboratory studies the replication of influenza virus and paramyxoviruses, particularly paramyxovirus-mediated membrane fusion, the action of the influenza A and B virus M2 and BM2 proton-selective ion channels, and influenza virus and paramyxovirus assembly and their interactions with cellular vesicle formation machinery. Dr. Lamb has written more than 230 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters on this topic.

Among his numerous honors is his election to the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology, and he has received the NIH MERIT award twice in the past two decades. In 2001, he was the president of the American Society for Virology.

The event is sponsored by the Lake Forest College Biology Department, Beta Beta Beta (the national undergraduate biology honorary society), and the Center for Chicago Programs.

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