Open AccessSymposium in honor of Ralph L. Brinster celebrating 50 years of scientific breakthroughs
Author(s) -
Richard R. Behringer,
Takashi Shinohara
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the international journal of developmental biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.837
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1696-3547
pISSN - 0214-6282
DOI - 10.1387/ijdb.120248rb
Subject(s) - honor , nobel laureate , library science , classics , biology , environmental ethics , art history , history , philosophy , art , literature , poetry , computer science , operating system
The Symposium speakers comprised a distinguished group of scientists from North America, Europe and Asia. The Keynote address was presented by Michael Brown, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1985), and a plenary lecture was presented by John Gurdon, who within the next months would receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012). The first lecture in the series was presented by Richard Palmiter, Ralphs collaborator for more than 15 years, and he provided an overview of their work together followed by Richards subsequent exciting contributions in the area of neurobiology. Seventeen lectures were presented over the two-day Symposium by distinguished scientists, including several of Ralph's former colleagues and students. The topics covered studies on germ cells, the germline, early embryos and their differentiation, as well as exciting and unpublished studies on stem cells and reprogramming. Many of the topics presented arose from foundation experiments in which Ralph participated, and these new developments indicate the dramatic progression of studies in this area. The Symposium program and the complete lectures can be found at the following link: www.vet.upenn.edu/BrinsterSymposium.