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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Lecture Series
SUMMARY:Life and Death of a Cell - Professor Ron Laskey\, 
 University of Cambridge
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120224T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nEach of us starts life as a single cel
 l\, a fertilized egg\, which divides repeatedly to
  form the hundred trillion cells that make up the 
 adult human body.  This poses extraordinary logist
 ical problems.  How do we produce the right number
 s of blood cells and nerve cells\, to give just tw
 o examples from many?  More remarkably\, how do we
  maintain the right number when blood cells are co
 ntinuously replaced\, yet nerve cells are not?  Th
 is lecture will look at the delicate balance of ce
 ll production and cell death and will consider the
  consequences of errors in these processes\, inclu
 ding cancer from over-production of some cells\, o
 r neurodegenerative diseases from excessive cell d
 eath and failure to replace dead cells.\n\nBiograp
 hy\n\nRon Laskey recently retired from the Charles
  Darwin Chair of Animal Embryology in the Universi
 ty and the Directorship of the MRC Cancer Cell Uni
 t in the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre at Addenbro
 oke’s. He has been a Fellow of Darwin College sinc
 e 1982 and has organised two of the College’s Lect
 ure Series.\n\nHis main interest has been the cont
 rol of cell proliferation and why it goes wrong in
  cancer. Some of the proteins studied in his work 
 are in advanced clinical trials of new screening t
 ests for some of the common cancers.\n\nRon Laskey
  is a Fellow of the Royal Society\, a Member of Ac
 ademia Europaea\, Vice President of the Academy of
  Medical Sciences and a former President of the Br
 itish Society for Cell Biology. He is President of
  the Biochemical Society from January 2012. His wo
 rk has been recognised by several awards\, includi
 ng the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine\, the Roya
 l Medal of the Royal Society and a CBE. On a light
 er note he has written and recorded albums of Song
 s for Cynical Scientists and More Songs for Cynica
 l Scientists\, now combined as Selected Songs for 
 Cynical Scientists.\n\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
CONTACT:Janet Gibson
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