[neact] Fwd: Reminder Iddles Lecture coming on 4-18-06

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     Right up your collective alleys!
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     Cary
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A reminder that the second Iddles Lecture will be held on Tuesday, 4-18-06.
It is mandatory attendance to these lectures. Please plan accordingly. Thank
you, Cindi
 
  

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University of New Hampshire
Department of Chemistry

The 2005-6 Harold A. Iddles Lecture Series

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Pamela Björkman

Max Delbrück Professor of Biology and
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

California Institute of Technology 

 



Tuesday, April 18, 2006


11:10 a.m.  

Iddles L103 

    

"The Molecular Basis of Iron Overload in Hereditary Hemochromatosis"

    


Iddles L101

4:00 p.m.   

"What We Can Learn from 3D Structures of Proteins" 

    

Pamela J. Björkman received her B.A. in Chemistry (1978) from the University
of Oregon and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1984) from Harvard University with
Donald C. Wiley.  During her graduate and postdoctoral work at Harvard she
solved the first x-ray crystal structure of a major histocompatibility
complex (MHC).  This seminal paper published in Nature marked the beginning
of a distinguished career of studying protein-protein interactions.   After
leaving Harvard, she pursued further postdoctoral work in the laboratory of
Mark M. David at Stanford University where she worked on T cell receptors.
Dr. Björkman joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology in
1989 where she is currently Max Delbrück Professor of Biology.  She is an
Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 

Dr. Björkman has been one of the world?s leaders in studies of
structure-function relationships of proteins involved in the immune
response.  She has pioneered the application of x-ray crystallography in
conjunction with molecular biology and various biophysical techniques to the
study of molecules involved in cell surface recognition. Her laboratory has
solved the structures of some twenty different proteins and protein/receptor
complexes of importance to a variety of fields, including the immunoglobulin
G receptor (FcRn) and the protein (HFE) that is mutated in the iron overload
disease hereditary hemochromatosis.  In 1995 she was awarded the Outstanding
Young Alumni Award and in 2004 the Alumni Achievement in Chemistry Award by
the University of Oregon .  She was elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences in 1997, the National Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the
American Philosophical Society in 2002.  She was a recipient of the William
B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Fundamental Immunology from the
Cancer Research Institute, the James R. Klinenberg Science Award from the
Arthritis Foundation, the Gairdner Foundation International Award for
Achievements in Medical Science, and the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig
Darmstaedter Prize in Medicine from the Federal Republic of Germany.

 
Cindi L. Rohwer
Administrative Manager
Department of Chemistry
University of New Hampshire
23 College Road, Parsons Hall
Durham, NH 03824
Tel# 603-862-1795
Fax#603-862-4278

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