{"61142":{"#nid":"61142","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IBSI Distinguished Scientific Leader Lecture Series Presents: Nobel Laureate Sir Richard Roberts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomicsand the \nIntegrative BioSystems Institute are pleased to host Distinguished \nScientific Leader Lecture speaker, \u003Cstrong\u003ESir Richard Roberts, Winner of the 1993\nNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer of  \nNew England Biolabs\u003C\/strong\u003E. His seminar will be held on Wednesday, October \n13, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the Marcus Nanotechnology \nBuilding, Room 1116. A reception honoring Sir Roberts will be held in \nthe gallery immediately following the seminar. The title of his talk \nwill be \u003Cstrong\u003E\u201cTHE GENOMICS OF RESTRICTION AND MODIFICATION\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022justify\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E The discovery of new restriction\n enzymes has progressed from the slow and laborious process of examining\n individual bacterial strains experimentally to the much higher \nthrough-put that can be obtained using bioinformatics to analyze genome \nsequences.  Nevertheless, both the traditional biochemical approach and \nthe use of biochemistry to test bioinformatics predictions are an \nintegral part of current practices.  The analysis of bacterial genomes \nfor their content of genes related to restriction-modification systems \nfaces many of the challenges found more generally when annotating \ngenomes.  The methodology that we have developed will be described and \nexamples will be drawn from the analysis of both individual \nmicroorganisms and the environmental projects that broadly sample \nvarious environments.  In the final part of the talk, the more general \nproblem of genome annotation will be discussed and a new project, \nCOMBREX, that aims to accelerate the experimental assignment of function\n to genes will be described.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp align=\u0022justify\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdditional Information:\u003C\/strong\u003E\nSir Richard Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England \nBiolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts.  He received his Ph.D. from the \nUniversity of Sheffield in Organic Chemistry and then moved to Harvard \nUniversity in 1969 to work with Professor J.L. Strominger. \n\nFor his discovery of \u0022split genes\u0022, molecular biologist Richard J. \nRoberts won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1993, sharing the honor with\n Phillip A. Sharp, who made much the same findings independently at the \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022justify\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022justify\u0022\u003E**Please Note: Dr. Nurse\u0027s seminar is free and open to the campus \ncommunity. No reservations are required, but please note that space is \nlimited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.**\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics and the Integrative BioSystems Institute will be hosting Distinguished Scientific Leader Lecture speaker Sir Richard Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Chief"}],"uid":"27199","created_gmt":"2010-09-21 17:49:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:52:18","author":"Jessica Forness","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-10-13T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-10-13T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-10-13T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-10-13 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-10-13 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-10-13 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/1993\/roberts.html","title":"Nobelprize.org"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJessica Gilmore Forness\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExecutive Assistant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIntegrative BioSystems Institute \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPhone: (404) 407-8976 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nE-mail: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jessica.gilmore@biology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejessica.gilmore@biology.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibsi.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibsi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ibsi.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}