Adelphi University is proud
to announce that Dr.Ada Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009) will present
the Dakin Memorial Lecture entitled “From Basic Research to Advanced
Antibiotics.” The event is co-sponsored by the Dakin Memorial Lecture Fund and
the Department of Chemistry. It is free
and open to the public. It will take place on April 29, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in
the Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom, located in the Ruth S. Harley University
Center, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.
A professor at the Weizmann
Institute of Science (WIS) and director of the Kimmelman Center for
Biomolecular Structure, Dr. Yonath focuses her studies on deciphering the
detailed functions of ribosomes, the cellular factories for the translation of
the genetic code to proteins. Additionally, she is currently investigating how
antibiotics paralyze bacterial ribosomes and how resistance is acquired by
pathogenic bacteria. These studies may well provide insights leading to the
development new classes of antibiotic drugs.
Dr. Yonath graduated from
Hebrew University, earned a Ph.D. at WIS and did postdoctoral work at
Carnegie-Mellon University and MIT. She is a member of the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities, the European Academy of Sciences and Art, the Korean
Academy of Sciences and Technology, and the US National Academy of Sciences,
among others. She has received honorary doctorates from academic institutions
all over the world, including, to name a few, Fujou University (China), the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Oslo University, and Oxford
University,
The list of prizes and awards
she has received in addition to the Nobel Prize includes the Erice Science for Peace
Prize (Vatican), the 1st European Crystallography Prize (Nancy, France),
the Israel Prize, the Harvey Prize (Technion, Israel), the Paul Ehrlich and
Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (Germany), the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (Columbia,
USA), the Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences, the Paul Karrer Gold Medal
(Zurich), the Wolf Prize (Israel), the Linus Pauling Medal (Stanford, USA), the
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, the Albert Einstein World Award of
Science (Princeton, USA),, and many others.
The Dakin
Memorial Lecture was instituted in 1953 after the College received the
scientific library, laboratory, equipment and memorabilia of Dr. Henry Drysdale
Dakin. Further gifts from his surviving relatives made possible the Dakin room,
which now houses the entire collection. Dakin, gained international fame for
developing the life-saving, buffered hypochlorite solution which bears his
name. It was first used in World War I for the irrigation of infected wounds.
To learn more about the Dakin
Memorial Lecture or the Department of Chemistry, please visit adelphi.edu.
About Adelphi University: Adelphi is a world-class, modern university with
excellent and highly relevant programs where students prepare for lives of
active citizenship and professional careers. Through its schools and
programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced
Psychological Studies, Honors College, Robert B. Willumstad School of Business,
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, and the Schools of
Nursing and Social Work—the coeducational university offers undergraduate and
graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults.
Adelphi University currently enrolls nearly 8,000 students from 43 states and
45 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and its centers in
Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University, chartered in 1896,
maintains a commitment to liberal studies, in tandem with rigorous professional
preparation and active citizenship.
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