The Priscilla Connell Memorial Lecture is MCDB's flagship lecture. This annual lecture series has an illustrious history with presentations by Nobel Laureates, National Medal of Science Recipients, National Academy of Sciences Members, and Royal Society Members.
Tuesday, March 16, 2027: Jack W. Szostak
MCDB is proud to presenet Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak as the 2027 Connell Lecture speaker.
Dr. Jack W. Szostak is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Center for the Origins of Life at the University of Chicago. He is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His lab focuses on the challenges of understanding the origin of life on Earth, and the construction of artificial cellular life in the laboratory.
Professor Szostak was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
