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2009 Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory, UK) will give a lecture in Hokkaido Univ. Dr. Ramakrishnan received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, the large molecular machine that makes proteins in all cells. In this lecture, geared toward non-scientists, he will explain what the ribosome is, how it works and how many antibiotics work by preventing the ribosome from functioning. Title: "The Ribosome: The cell's protein factory and how antibiotics block it" Also, he will give a more specialized lecture at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan. This is a special session, and is open to the public. Nobel Prize Special Symposium "From inside the darkness of the ribosomal exit tunnel: The feedback regulation of methionine biosynthesis in plants" "A flexible protein complex located in the factor binding center of the ribosome" "Decoding of the genetic message by the ribosome" Isao Tanaka (Faculty of advanced life science. Hokkaido Univ.)
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