Education & Training
Join us for a mini-symposium reflecting on Barbara McClintock’s background and scientific contributions over her illustrious career.
Dr. McClintock’s numerous breakthrough discoveries such as meiotic chromosome crossovers and the relationship to recombination of genetic traits, the existence of chromosomal rearrangements, and the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, led her to be only the third woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. Her discovery of mobile genetic elements earned her the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when she was 81 years old.
This event begins with a fireside-style chat reflecting on Dr. McClintock’s life, followed by a scientific symposium featuring presentations from five scientists, including two young investigators, who represent different aspects of Dr. McClintock’s legacy, with topics ranging from transposition and genome rearrangements to epigenetics.
This event is now over. You can view a video here.
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time: to ET
Agenda
to 4 PM: Barbara McClintock Reflection
Molly Gale Hammell, PhD
Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lee Kass, PhD
School of Integrative Plant Science
Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Cornell University
Roundtable discussion - all participants
to 6 PM: Scientific Symposium
Shelley Berger, PhD
Daniel S. Och University Professor
Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology; Biology; Genetics;
Director, Epigenetics Institute
Co-leader, Tumor Biology Program, Abramson Cancer Center
University of Pennsylvania
“Epigenetic regulation of complex behavior in ant societies”
Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jasin lab
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Germline mutagenesis at recombination hotspots in mice”
Molly Gale Hammell, PhD
Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Retrotransposon reactivation in neurodegenerative disease”
Luz Jubierre, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kentsis lab
Memorial Sloan Kettering
“An ancient DNA transposase responsible for human brain development”
Laura Landweber, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Professor of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
“Oxytricha as a model for genome rearrangement”
Molly Gale Hammell, PhD
Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD
Laura Landweber, PhD
Shelley Berger, PhD
Luz Jubierre, PhD
Lee Kass, PhD
Organizers and Sponsor
CSHL Independent Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Research Technician
GSK Graduate Student
Member, Developmental Biology
PhD student
Vice President, Scientific Education & Training
