KNIGHT SEMINAR: November 16 (MIT, E19-623)Please note: this seminar will start at 4:30 pmHuman wars with microbes
Roberto Kolter, Harvard University
 Dr. Roberto Kolter is Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, where he has been a faculty member since 1983 and Co-Director of Harvard’s University wide Microbial Sciences Initiative since 2003. Dr. Kolter has been an influential microbiologist for a period that spans four decades. As a graduate student in the 1970s he studied DNA replication. At Harvard, he has worked on antibiotic synthesis, bacterial starvation physiology, experimental evolution, bacterial biofilms, and chemical communication in the microbial world. Dr. Kolter has been involved in science teaching and policy worldwide. He recently served as the President of the American Society for Microbiology, the oldest and largest single life science organization in the world. He now serves as the Chair of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board of the American Society for Microbiology. A native of Guatemala, Dr. Kolter earned his B.S. at Carnegie-Mellon University, his Ph.D. at University of California, San Diego and carried out post-doctoral training at Stanford University.
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KNIGHT SEMINAR: November 18 (MIT, E19-623, 4:00 pm)Nanotechnology: Building Blocks that are Living Things
Angela Belcher, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy
Debbie Meinbresse Program Coordinator Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT E19-623 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139
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