Panel Detail
Saturday, September 8, 2012
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
The Protein Folding Problem
Speaker:
Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MIT; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Susan Lindquist, an MIT researcher, will explain why proteins are central to the function of every cell in the human body. She will describe how a protein's unique structure is critical to its function and how disruptions to that structure can lead to serious health conditions.