Join us for a talk by Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize laureate and Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom, entitled “My Adventures in the Ribosome.”

The ribosome is the ancient and enormous molecular machine that reads genetic information on mRNA to synthesize proteins. Although it was discovered in the 1950s, it took several decades to determine an atomic structure of the ribosome because of its complexity. This talk will cover Dr. Ramakrishnan's own efforts to unravel its structure. He will also speak about his own career which involved living on three continents and switching from his initial training in physics to learning and carrying out research in molecular biology.

Held in the Foellinger Great Hall in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, this talk is free and open to the public.

Dr. Ramakrishnan will also be part of the evening event "Gene Machine" at Krannert Center - details for this musical event can be found here.