Nobel Prize winner Professor Venki Ramakrishnan gives Peter Garland Lecture
ByNews reporter
DOUGIE NICOLSON, COURIER, 19/05/11, NEWS.
DATE - Thursday 11th May 2011.
LOCATION - Wellcome Trust building.
EVENT - Lecture by Nobel Laureate.
INFO - L/R Prof. Venki Ramakrishan - Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, with Under Graduate Life Science students, Sylwia Gawron, Magdalena Grzeszczuk and Philip Rodger before his lecture.
STORY BY - Reporters.
Undergraduate life sciences students at Dundee University have been given an audience with Nobel Laureate Professor Venki Ramakrishnan.
Based at the Medical Research Council’s laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge, he visited Dundee to deliver the annual Peter Garland Lecture at the college of life sciences.
Professor Ramakrishnan is one of the most prominent molecular biologists in the world.
He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
His other honours include: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Louis Jentet Prize for Medicine, Datta Medal, Heatley Medal, Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy. He received India’s second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2010.
The Peter Garland Lecture is the College of Life Sciences’ most prestigious lecture. Peter Garland was the first Professor of Biochemistry in Dundee and under his leadership from 1970-1984 it became the UK’s strongest life sciences department.
Nobel Prize winner Professor Venki Ramakrishnan gives Peter Garland Lecture
