Buffmire Lecture with Nobel Laureate Dr. Randy Schekman: 'Genetic Rush Hour'

Fri, 03/03/2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Donald K. Buffmire Visiting Lectureship in Medicine with Nobel Laureate Randy W. Schekman, PhD

"Genetic Rush Hour: How the proteins of our cells follow traffc signs in normal and genetic diseases"

WATCH IT LIVE!  
(The video also will be archived at the above link for later viewing.)

This special presentation is a combined effort between the Buffmire Lecture Series and COM Dean’s 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series. Through a grant provided by the Flinn Foundation, the UA College of Medicine – Tucson has engaged Dr. Randy Schekman as its spring Buffmire lecturer. Dr. Schekman is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013 for his "discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."

Friday, March 3, 2017
Banner University Medical Center – DuVal Auditorium
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch Provided - FREE

RSVP by February 27 to glinda@email.arizona.edu

Please download, post and share the flyer:  buffmire_2017_3-24x31-v5.pdf

Event Location: 

DuVal Auditorium
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson
1501 N. Campbell Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85724

Contact Info: 

Direct questions to Gracialinda Colmenero at glinda@email.arizona.edu or (520) 626-1530.