When:Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Time:7:30 pm
Where:The Bell House
149 7th St.
between 2nd and 3rd avenues
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Cost:Free

Put on your lab coat and prepare to enter inner space… Dr. Gregory Hannon of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost genetic researchers, deciphering the mechanisms used by cells to fight invaders and that soon may be used to create treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Dr. Hannon will lecture on his pioneering work in the field of RNA interference (RNAi), a powerful new tool for gene analysis. Hannon and his colleagues have harnessed RNAi, a naturally occurring process of gene regulation, to selectively turn off genes in living cells. Hannon uses the technique to study cancer development and to probe the mechanisms that make this method of gene control so effective.

The author of over 150 scientific papers, Dr. Hannon was recently in the news with groundbreaking research on the origins of a mysterious communicable cancer that is attacking the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian Devil. He is the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, and the American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research.

Before & After

–Groove to genetically altered tunes

–Imbibe our scientifically inspired cocktail, the Cell-o-bration!

–Stick around for the scintillating Q&A