The intricate world of inter-organ communication Center for Developmental Biology

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Category	Lecture
Date and Time	2017-12-06 14:00 - 15:30
Venue	Auditorium C1F
Speaker	Norbert Perrimon
Affiliation	Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title	The intricate world of inter-organ communication
Poster	click here to download(PDF)
Host	Sa-Kan Yoo
Brief Bio	Dr. Norbert Perrimon is the James Stillman Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He is a geneticist recognized for his work in signal transduction and the development of functional genomics methods. He is particularly known for the characterization of canonical signaling pathways and the development of methods, such as the FLP-FRT Dominant Female Sterile technique to generate germline mosaics, the Gal4-UAS method to control gene expression both spatially and temporally, and high throughput RNAi screening. Dr. Perrimon was born in France in 1958 and became a U.S. citizen in 2005. He received a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1983. He has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1986. He received the George W. Beadle medal from the Genetics Society of America in. 2004 and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, EMBO, and National Academy of Sciences.