Can We Cure Aging?
Linda Partridge
DBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci, Professorial Research Fellow, University College London
February 22, 2023
Public Lectures
In association with the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology organizes talks for high profile scientists to help educate the public on various scientific topics relevant to their day to day life. The invited speakers' list includes the following Nobel Prize winners:
- Edvard Moser (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014).
- Randy Schekman (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013).
- Jack W. Szostak (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009).
mTOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism: How an Unhealthy Diet Causes Diabetes
Michael N. Hall
Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Research Group, University of Basel
February 17, 2020
The Rhythms of Life From Fruit Fly Brains to Human Obesity
Justin Blau
Professor of Biology and Neural Science and Chair, Department of Biology, NYU
January 15, 2020
The Taming of Plants: Domestication of the Food Species We Eat
Michael Purugganan
Silver Professor; Professor of Biology; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
February 4, 2019
A World without Parasitic Worms: Why, When and How?
Timothy Geary
Canada Research Chair in Parasite Biotechnology; Institute Director, McGill University
January 4, 2018
The Role of Technology in Feeding 10 Billion People
Nina Fedoroff
Evan Pugh Professor Emerita, Penn State University
February 6, 2018
Grid Cells and The Brain’s Map of Space
Edvard Moser
Nobel Laureate; Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience; Professor of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
February 7, 2017
The Evolution of Date Palms
Michael Purugganan
Silver Professor; Professor of Biology; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
November 19, 2017
How Cells Export Proteins and Small RNAs
Randy Schekman
Nobel Laureate; Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
February 17, 2015
Autism, New Mutations, Genes and Pathways
Evan Eichler
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
February 18, 2014
What Does Your Genome Say About Who You Are?
Brenda Andrews
Director of the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and Professor, University of Toronto
February 8, 2013
Circadian Rhythms Writ Large and Small
Michael Rosbash
Professor of Biology, Brandeis University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
February 14, 2012