|
 Threshold
of Knowledge - Series of Lectures
KENSRI
School has taken the initiative to invite resource people from various
fields to educate the children which will help them in their project work,
come up with products for their excellence corporation and for self.
This
not only increases their subject knowledge but also helps in moulding the
child as a good human being with the motivational talks given by the
resource people and also helps in building up their leadership qualities,
Several
people have been a part of this program which has helped the children to a
great extent.
Professor
Tapas Kundu |
Prof.
Tapas Kundu
completed
his Masters in Biochemistry from the University of Agricultural
Sciences, Bangalore, followed by his Ph.D.
in the Indian Institute of Science, Department of Biochemistry under
the guidance of Prof. M.R.S. Rao. After completing his doctoral
studies, he carried out his post-doctoral research first at the
National Institute of Genetics, Japan with Prof. Akira Ishihama and
later at the Rockefeller University, New York, with Prof. Robert G.
Roeder where he contributed significantly to the field of gene
regulation. He returned to India in October 1999 to join the
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research as an
Assistant Professor. Here, he has spearheaded research on the
regulation of chromatin transcription, with special emphasis on the
management of diseases. |
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Ron
Vale
is
Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the
University of California, San Francisco, where he has been on
faculty since 1987. He also has been an investigator of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute since 1995. Vale received a B.A. degree in
biology and chemistry from the University of California, Santa
Barbara (1980), and a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from Stanford
University (1985). His graduate and postdoctoral studies at the
Marine Biological Laboratory led to the discovery of kinesin, a
microtubule-based motor protein. Dr. Vale's honors include the
Pfizer Award in enzyme chemistry, the Young Investigator Award from
the Biophysical Society, and election to the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Besides
studying the mechanism of motor proteins (the subject of this
lecture), Vale's laboratory using RNAi and high resolution
microscopy to study mitosis and cell shape, examines signal
transduction by single molecule microscopy, and biochemistry/cell
biology of microtubule plus end binding proteins. |
Professor
Ron Vale |
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