VISITING SPEAKER:
  Processing of miRNA precursors
		
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00 - G.33 Lecture Theatre, Bayliss Bldg., UWA
		
Professor Nina Fedoroff
Nina V. Fedoroff received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the
Rockefeller University, and has served on the faculties of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the
Pennsylvania State University, where she was the Director of the
Biotechnology Institute and the founding Director of the Huck Institutes
of the Life Sciences. Fedoroff has published two books and more than 140
papers in scientific journals. She is a member of several academies,
including the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences. Among her awards is a 2006 National Medal of
Science, the highest honor awarded to US scientists.  Fedoroff served as
the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State and to the
Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
from 2007 to 2010. She is an Evan Pugh Professor at Penn State, a member
of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and Distinguished
Professor of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
(KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. She is also President of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
		
For more information:
  Jennifer Gillett
  jennifer.gillett@uwa.edu.au
  ext 4416

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Last Updated : Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:02