Event
Nobel Prize Winner, Bruce A. Beutler, PhD
Friday, November 16, 2012 15:00
McIntyre Medical Building
Palmer Amphitheater, Room 522, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA
Dr. Bruce Beutler discovered an important family of receptors that allow mammals to sense infections聽 when they occur, triggering a powerful聽inflammatory response.聽For this work he received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.聽
Title: "Forward Genetics in the Analysis of Immunity"
This seminar is hosted by the Complex Traits Group
Bruce A. Beutler, Ph.D
Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center