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Past Visitors

Bruce Alberts: 15 Sep 2008 - 21 Sep 2008; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California-San Francisco; Research Interest :

Protein machines that catalyse DNA replication

Karl Tryggvason: 21 Jun 2008 - 13 Jul 2008; Dean of Research Professor in Medical Chemistry; Research Interest :

Extracellular Matrix and that work has led to studies of matrix proteins and their functions, as well as involvement in human disease.

Thomas Steitz: 07 Jan 2008 - 12 Jan 2008; Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University; Research Interest :
X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of proteins and nucleic acids

Joan Steitz: 07 Jan 2008 - 12 Jan 2008; Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University; Research Interest :
The function of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), which occur only in higher cells and organisms.

Patrick Sissons: 26 Mar 2007 - 30 Mar 2007; Regius Professor of Physic School of Clinical Medicine University of Cambridge Addenbrooke's Hospital; Research Interest :
Biology of cytomegalovirus and other herpesviruses

Thomas Sudhof: 10 Aug 2006 - 19 Aug 2006; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, Center for Basic Neuroscience Professor of Molecular Genetics Gill and Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chairs in Neuroscience; Research Interest :

Thomas Südhof is interested in how presynaptic terminals are formed during synaptogenesis, how presynaptic terminals release neurotransmitters, and how presynaptic terminals degenerate in neurodegenerative disease. To address these questions, Südhof's laboratory employs approaches ranging from biophysical studies to the physiological and behavioral analyses of mutant mice.

Michael Kastan: 24 Jul 2006 - 31 Jul 2006; Member, St. Jude Faculty Cancer Center Director Chair, Hematology-Oncology Director, Molecular Therapeutics Division Co-Director, Molecular Oncology Program; Research Interest :

Radiation biology, DNA damage and repair, Tumor suppressor genes, Determinants of chemosensitivity and radiosensitivity, Ataxia-telangiectasia,
Causes of cancer - genetic predisposition and environmental contributions

Peter Doherty: 06 Jul 2006 - 12 Jul 2006; Laureate Professor, The University of Melbourne; Research Interest :
Immune system

Ferid Murad: 22 Mar 2006 - 28 Mar 2006; Professor and Chairman, Department of Integrative Biology & Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center; Research Interest :
Nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing nitric oxide into the body

Susumu Tonegawa: 06 Mar 2006 - 09 Mar 2006; Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Director of the Picower Center for Learning and Memory; Research Interest :
Understand the molecular, cellular, neuronal circuitry, and neural systems mechanisms underlying learning and memory and associated cognitive functions

Terrence J. Sejnowski: 24 Oct 2005 - 26 Oct 2005; Head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Research Interest :
Computational Neuroscience

Beatrice Golomb: 24 Oct 2005 - 26 Oct 2005; Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Research Interest :
Mitochondrial function and aging

Elizabeth H. Blackburn: 22 Oct 2005 - 30 Oct 2005; Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco; Research Interest :
A variety of organisms and human cancer cells, with the goal of understanding telomerase and telomere biology

Arnold J. Levine: 26 Sep 2005 - 02 Oct 2005; Professor, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; Research Interest :
Roles of nutrition, longevity, sexual hormones and stress upon the functions and communication between key pathways in a cell that play a central role in breast cancers

Donald A. Henderson: 25 Jun 2005 - 01 Jul 2005; Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Research Interest :

Marye Anne Fox: 10 Apr 2005 - 15 Apr 2005; Chancellor, University of California, San Diego; Research Interest :

Physical organic chemistry; organic photochemistry; organic electrochemistry; chemical reactivity in non-homogeneous systems; heterogeneous photocatalysis; and electronic transfer in anisotropic macromolecular arrays.

Frank McCormick: 02 Apr 2005 - 08 Apr 2005; Director, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center & Cancer Research Institute; Research Interest :
Cancer Cells

Joseph Nadeau: 27 Mar 2005 - 03 Apr 2005; Chair, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University; Research Interest :
Comparative mapping and mouse models of human disease

Raymond Dwek: 20 Mar 2005 - 25 Mar 2005; Director of Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford; Research Interest :
Structural and conformational analysis of oligosaccharides glycopeptides and glycoproteins

Lucy Shapiro: 13 Mar 2005 - 19 Mar 2005; Director, Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research & Director, Beckman Center in the School of Medicine, Stanford University; Research Interest :
Uunderstanding the control of the bacterial cell cycle and the establishment of cell fate

Harley McAdams: 13 Mar 2005 - 19 Mar 2005; Associate Professor (Research), Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Research Interest :
Nature of the control systems that cells create from biochemical and genetic components.

Peter Gruss: 02 Mar 2005 - 04 Mar 2005; Member, BMS IAC (2004-) President, Max Planck Society, Germany (2002-) Honorary Professor, University of Göttingen, Germany (1990-); Research Interest :
Control mechanisms in the development of vertebrates, Hox genes, Pax genes
Brain development

Colin Blakemore: 27 Feb 2005 - 05 Mar 2005; Member, BMS IAC (2005-2007) Chief Executive, Medical Research Council, UK (2003-) President, British Neuroscience Association (1997-2000) President, British Association for the Advancement of Science (1997-1998); Research Interest :
Early development of the brain

Yung-Chi Cheng: 21 Feb 2005 - 25 Feb 2005; Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine; Research Interest :
Cancer & Viral Chemotherapy

Lucio Luzzatto: 09 Jan 2005 - 16 Jan 2005; Scientific Director, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro Consultant, Department of Human Genetics and Division of Hematologic Oncology Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Research Interest :

Molecular Biology, Human Genetics

Richard J. Roberts: 06 Jan 2005 - 13 Jan 2005; Research Director, New England Biolabs; Research Interest :
Restriction endonucleases, DNA methylases, Computational molecular biology

Kurt. Wuthrich: 06 Dec 2004 - 11 Dec 2004; Professor of Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Research Interest :
molecular structural biology, and structural and functional proteomics

Ravinder Maini: 21 Nov 2004 - 27 Nov 2004; Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London; Research Interest :
immunotherapy, autoantibody production, measurement and pathogenesis

Michael Longaker: 07 Nov 2004 - 13 Nov 2004; Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor Director, Children's Surgical Research Program Stanford University School of Medicine; Research Interest :
Wound Healing, Bone Healing, Tissue Engineering

W. Geoffrey Owen: 03 Oct 2004 - 09 Oct 2004; Dean of the Biological Sciences Division in the College of Letters & Science and Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley; Research Interest :

Retina's photoreceptors, the cells that absorb light and provide
input to the other cells of the retina and the brain, where the visual world is
interpreted

Allan Balmain: 15 Aug 2004 - 21 Aug 2004; Barbara Bass Bakar Endowed Chair in Cancer Genetics, Cancer Research Institute and Biochemistry, University of California at San Francisco; Research Interest :
Identifying Genes Responsible for Cancer Susceptibility

GertJan B. van Ommen: 22 Jul 2004 - 27 Jul 2004; Head, Department of Human Genetics, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics Director, Center for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden University Medical Center; Research Interest :
Genomics and genetic disease and hereditary cancer etiology, diagnostics and prevention, as well as the societal implications of genetics and genome research

Elaine Fuchs: 16 May 2004 - 21 May 2004; Laboratory Head of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Research Interest :
Skin Biology

Owen Witte: 25 Apr 2004 - 01 May 2004; Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics President's Chair in Developmental Immunology, University of California, Los Angeles; Research Interest :
Development of the immune system and leukemia, Cell growth regulation/differentiation in hematopoiesis

David Patterson: 14 Apr 2004 - 18 Apr 2004; President & Senior Fellow, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research, University of Denver; Research Interest :
Genetics of Down Syndrome and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Louis Reichardt: 28 Mar 2004 - 04 Apr 2004; Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco; Research Interest :
Control of Neuronal Development and Synapse Formation

Martin Evans: 14 Mar 2004 - 20 Mar 2004; Director of School of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University; Research Interest :
Mammalian genetics

Robert Tjian: 14 Mar 2004 - 21 Mar 2004; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Research Interest :
Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Animal Cells

Arturo Falaschi: 08 Feb 2004 - 14 Feb 2004; Director-General, The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; Research Interest :
The isolation and characterisation of DNA replication origins from human cells; the purification and characterisation of several human DNA helicases and the applications of human molecular genetics to medicine

Thomas L. James: 05 Feb 2004 - 12 Feb 2004; Chairman, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco; Research Interest :
Structural biology, biophysical chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, proteins, in vivo NMR

Louis M. Kunkel: 01 Feb 2004 - 08 Feb 2004; Chief, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston; Research Interest :
Molecular Genetics of Neuromuscular Disease

Carol Reiss: 11 Jan 2004 - 17 Jan 2004; Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University; Research Interest :
Viral infection of the CNS; the role of innate immunity in the host response

Jerry Shay: 30 Nov 2003 - 06 Dec 2003; Professor and Southland Corporation Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Research Interest :
Role of telomeres and telomerase in human aging

Gerald Rubin: 23 Nov 2003 - 28 Nov 2003; Vice President and Director of Planning for Janelia Farm Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Genetics and Development, University of California, Berkeley Director, Drosophila Genome Center; Research Interest :
Biological Annotation of the Drosophila Genome

Ernest Beutler: 08 Nov 2003 - 15 Nov 2003; Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Research Interest :
Genetic Disorders

Esther M. Sternberg: 26 Oct 2003 - 01 Nov 2003; Director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health; Research Interest :
Central nervous system - immune system interactions

Douglas Green: 04 Oct 2003 - 12 Oct 2003; Head, Division of Cellular Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology; Research Interest :
Roles and central mechanisms of apaptosis in the immune system

Peter K. Vogt: 26 Sep 2003 - 02 Oct 2003; Professor, Department of Molecular & Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Research Interest :
Molecular Genetics of Cancer

John Kuriyan: 17 Jul 2003 - 23 Jul 2003; Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Research Interest :
Structural Biology of Cell Signaling and DNA Replication

Colin Hopkins: 17 Mar 2003 - 22 Mar 2003; Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biological Studies, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Research Interest :
Route Selection by Trafficking Membrane Proteins

David Cox: 10 Mar 2003 - 16 Mar 2003; Chief Scientific Officer, Perlegen Sciences, Inc; Research Interest :
Development of reagents for tracking human haplotypes in disease

Richard O. Hynes: 02 Mar 2003 - 08 Mar 2003; Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Research Interest :
The Molecular Basis of Cell Adhesion in Normal and Pathological Situations

Charles F. Stevens: 08 Feb 2003 - 15 Feb 2003; Professor in Molecular Neurobiology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Research Interest :
Mechanisms of synaptic transmission

Harvey Lodish: 12 Jan 2003 - 18 Jan 2003; Professor of Biology, Professor of Bioengineering, Whitehead Institute and MIT; Research Interest :
Membrane Biology

Tak Wah Mak: 12 Nov 2002 - 15 Nov 2002; Professor, Dept of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital; Research Interest :
Co-discovery of the T-cell receptor, development of knock out mice for the analysis of gene function

Paul Nurse: 03 Nov 2002 - 09 Nov 2002; President, The Rockefeller University; Research Interest :
Molecular machinery that drives cell division and controls cell shape

Leland Hartwell: 27 Oct 2002 - 02 Nov 2002; President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Research Interest :
Cancer Biology; Evolution, Genetics, Maintenance and expression of genetic variation in yeast. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001

John Tooze: 13 Oct 2002 - 19 Oct 2002; Executive Director of Research Integration and Services, Cancer Research UK; Research Interest :
Molecular Biology of Tumor Viruses, principles of protein structure

Arthur Kornberg: 03 Oct 2002 - 06 Oct 2002; Professor and Executive Head, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine; Research Interest :
Biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, and synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. (DNA) - studying the nucleic acids which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959

George K Radda: 12 Aug 2002 - 17 Aug 2002; Professor, University of Oxford; Research Interest :
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study biochemistry of living tissues

Karl J. Friston: 04 Aug 2002 - 10 Aug 2002; Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, University College London; Research Interest :
Human brain mapping

Mark Walport: 28 Jul 2002 - 03 Aug 2002; Head, Rheumatology Section, Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital; Research Interest :
Immunology and the genetics of rheumatic diseases

Andrew H. Wyllie: 08 Jul 2002 - 13 Jul 2002; Head of Department and Professor of Pathology, University of Cambridge; Research Interest :
The molecular genetics of cancer; programmed cell death; apoptosis

Alan Hall: 02 Jun 2002 - 08 Jun 2002; Professor of Molecular Biology and Director MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology & Cell Biology Unit, University College London; Research Interest :
Cell signalling, cell motility, actin cytoskeleton

Salvador Moncada: 29 Apr 2002 - 04 May 2002; Director, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research; Research Interest :
Highly cited for nitric oxide work

Ron Laskey: 01 Apr 2002 - 07 Apr 2002; Honorary Director, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Center; Research Interest :
Eukaryotic DNA replication and nuclear protein import

Murray Sachs: 11 Mar 2002 - 16 Mar 2002; Director, Whitaker Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University School of Medicine; Research Interest :
Neural mechanisms of auditory perception; mathematical models for signal processing in the nervous system

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Richard Frackowiak: 18 Feb 2002 - 24 Feb 2002; Professor and Co Head of Department, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology; Research Interest :
Imaging Neuroscience: Methodological advances and applications to cortical plasticity and functional recovery

Alfred Wittinghofer: 04 Feb 2002 - 09 Feb 2002; Director, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund; Research Interest :
Regulation of Ras, Ran and Rho

Kay-Tee Khaw: 18 Dec 2001 - 22 Dec 2001; Professor of Gerontology, Head of Clinical Gerontology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge; Research Interest :
Community medicine and chronic disease epidemiology