Genetics

Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how ribosomes function, work that has important implications for antibiotics.

Dr. Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, headed the team that mapped the ribosome's structure.

Dr. Judy Cho, co-director for education at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation talks about the need to bring knowledge gained in biomedical research to bear in patient care. YCCI develops young investigators who are adept at collaborating with clinicians to put the basic discoveries of bench science to work improving patient care.

Yale's James Noonan describes genetic differences between humans and other primates.

Ronald Breaker of Yale discusses his work with highly conserved RNA mechanism with great power to initiate change. In a world before DNA, riboswitches may have carried out many of the functions of life.

Professor Anna Marie Pyle discusses new findings about RNA processing and the form-function relationship of Group II introns and their evolution.

Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and HHMI Investigator and her Postdoctoral Fellow Shobha Vasudevan discuss their recent findings on microRNAs acting as activators as well as repressors of gene activity.

Peter Glazer, M.D., Robert E. Hunter Professor of Radiology, professor of genetics, and chair of therapeutic radiology, has developed a technique to repair faulty genes.

Dr. Errol Norwitz, Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, discusses his abstract on genes in a Hispanic Population that are linked preterm birth and diminished birthweight.

Dr. Richard Lifton, chair of the Department of Genetics, Sterling Professor of Genetics, Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, talks about how common human diseases account for the vast majority of deaths in our society and are known to have underlying inherited components.

Arthur Horwich, professor of genetics and pediatrics and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, talks about his research on the protein folding machinery in cells and its potential to cure neurodegenerative and other diseases.

Michael Snyder, Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics; and Post-doctoral associate Jan Korbel discuss new findings of individual diversity caused by large-scale gene rearrangement.

Tian Xu, Yale Professor of Genetics, Molecular Oncology and Development; Vice-Chair, Department of Genetic, delivers a lecture concerning the next state of the human genome at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.

Professor Snyder speaks about the results of the ENCODE pilot project, and other recent aspects of understanding the structure-function relationship of genes and regulatory elements of the genome.