Nobel Laureate Will Discuss Biotechnology at U of M April 17
For release: April 2, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Marking the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul Berg will speak at The University of Memphis Thursday, April 17. His lecture, "Biotechnology: Confronting the Polity," will begin at 8 p.m. in the Fogelman Executive Center, Room 136. The public is welcome at this free event.

Berg will examine the nature of threats to biomedical research from the government and its citizens as exemplified by the recombinant DNA events and the debate on human embryonic stem cells and cloning. He is the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research emeritus and director emeritus of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University, and continues to do research in the Department of Biochemistry. Berg shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA.

The Marcus W. Orr Faculty Senate Lecture in Higher Education is supported by The U of M's Academic Enrichment and Public Service programs, the Faculty Senate, Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Sciences.

For more information, call 901-678-3550.

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