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SUMMARY:Nuclear Reprogramming: Prospects for Cell Replacement - Professor 
 Sir John Gurdon
DTSTART:20160120T210000Z
DTEND:20160120T220000Z
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CONTACT:Jamie Fox
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sir John Gurdon is an English developmental biologis
 t\, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and 
 cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009\, and in 2012 he and Shin
 ya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for th
 e discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.\n
 \nProfessor Sir Gurdon went to Christ Church\, Oxford to study classics\, 
 before switching to zoology and completing a DPhil degree studying nuclear
  transplantation in a frog species of the genus Xenopus. He has since held
  posts at Caltech\, the University of Oxford\, and at the University of Ca
 mbridge MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Department of Zoology. He 
 was the master of Magdalene College from 1995 to 2002.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Plant Sciences\, Downing Si
 te
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