January 8, 2010

On January 13, Professor Thomas A. Steitz of the Yale School of Medicine and Rib-X Pharmaceuticals will repeat his Nobel Lecture, which was first delivered at Stockholm University on December 8, two days before he received the Nobel Prize.

You are cordially invited to attend.

Wednesday, January 13, 4:00 pm

From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics

Mary S. Harkness Auditorium
Sterling Hall of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT

A reception in the Medical Historical Library will immediately follow the event.

Thomas Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, shared the 2009 prize with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Ada E. Yonath, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

All three used X-ray crystallography to map the position for each of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome, which serves as the site of protein synthesis inside all animal, plant, and bacterial cells.

While the work began as a quest to answer basic questions about the makeup of ribosomes, the resulting knowledge has created targets for a new generation of antibiotics.