Nobel Prize Recipient Smithies Speaks

Posted on April 7, 2008

Nobel Prize co-recipient Oliver Smithies will give a free public talk about “Reflections on a Lifetime of Science” at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Smithies, an Excellence Professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UNC, was co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The award recognized Smithies’ introduction of specific gene modifications in mice through embryonic stem cells.

Smithies’ talk on Wednesday also will feature a moderated question-and-answer session.

Smithies shares the award with Mario R. Capecchi of the University of Utah’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sir Martin J. Evans of Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.

Seating is limited to the first 300 people, and doors to the Morehead Banquet Hall will open at 6:45 p.m. More information about Smithies’ presentation at Morehead Planetarium is available online or call (919) 962-1236.

The Planetarium is located at 250 E. Franklin St. on the UNC campus. Parking is available in the UNC visitor lot adjacent to the center.

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Related coverage is available online:

• The First Nobel: Oliver Smithies’ Work Pays Off
  News reports from December 2007
• View video of the Nobel Prize award ceremony
• A Humble Scientist Gets the Proverbial Phone Call
  News report from October 2007, available online to Carolina Alumni members.
• Of Mice and Man: The human genome is complete. Now medical schools will subdivide the vast field of genetics research. Carolina is making a major investment to strengthen its specialty in genetic engineering.
  Cover story from the November/December 2000 issue of the Carolina Alumni Review, available online to Carolina Alumni members.
• Accompanying profile, detailing Smithies’ work, also in the November/December 2000 issue of the Carolina Alumni Review.

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