Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
online
Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory presents:
LIFE, HOPE AND SCIENCE: THREE JOURNEYS IN RESEARCH
What can we learn from the life stories of eminent women scientists? Learn about the lives of Elizabeth Blackburn, Jennifer Doudna, and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
Moderator: Susan Hockfield, President Emerita MIT, author of The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).
Three women-Nobelists:
Elizabeth Blackburn
Jennifer Doudna
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Speakers:
Georgina Ferry, biographer, author of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace, a life in science (Bloomsbury 2019)
Jennifer Doudna, subject of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster 2021)
Elizabeth Blackburn, co-author of The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)
Organizers of the event:
Nancy Hopkins, Amgen Inc. Professor of Biology Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mila Pollock, Executive Director, CSHL Library & Archives, The Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology
Jan Witkowski, Professor, CSHL School of Biological Sciences
To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-hope-and-science-three-journeys-in-research-tickets-169497139507