The Brackenridge Distinguished Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., 2003 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, professor at The Rockefeller University, New York, will present this year’s lectures.
Dr. MacKinnon received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., and a doctorate from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston. He completed his medical residency at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and his postdoctoral work at Brandeis.
Dr. MacKinnon is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Rosenstiel Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Dr. MacKinnon will present two lectures. The first lecture will be a scientific lecture, “Gating of Voltage Dependent Potassium Channels” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, in Room 3.104A in the Pestana Lecture Hall. A reception will follow the scientific lecture in the Lecture Hall foyer.
Dr. MacKinnon’s second lecture, a public lecture, “Ion Channels: Life’s Electrical Impulse Generators,” will be presented at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19 in Room 3.104A in the Pestana Lecture Hall.
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