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The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
6/29/06 - 9:30 AM - Whitman Auditorium
"Gene Networks for Fly Gastrulation and Sea Squirt Cardiogenesis"
Michael Levine, University of California at Berkeley
Dr. Michael Levine was born and raised in California. He received his B.A. in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1981. Prior to joining the UC Berkeley faculty in 1996, Dr. Levine held positions at UCSD, the University of Zürich, and Columbia University. In 2002, he was appointed co-director of the UC Berkeley's Center for Integrative Genomics. Dr. Levine's laboratory studies gene networks that control animal development and disease. Particular efforts focus on the control of segmentation and gastrulation in the early Drosophila embryo, the immune response in Drosophila larvae, and the differentiation of the notochord and heart in the sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis. He was awarded the Monsanto Prize in Molecular Biology in 1996 and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
About the Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
Native Iowan Richard G. Kessel has long been fascinated by the ocean, and has devoted much of his career to the study of the diversity and development of marine organisms. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from Parsons College in 1953, he entered the University of Iowa as a graduate student in Zoology. While a student there, Dr. Kessel studied the fine structure and physiology of insect pericardial and subesophageal body cells. During his graduate training, an invertebrate zoology course stimulated his curiosity about marine organisms.
Dr. Kessel received his Ph.D. in 1959 and accepted a position in the anatomy department at Wake Forest Medical School. In 1961, he returned to the University of Iowa, where he moved through the ranks to Professor. In 1997, after 36 years of teaching, research, and service, Dr. Kessel retired from the University.
Dr. Kessel spent the summer of 1957 in Woods Hole, as a participant in the MBL's Embryology Course. He was a graduate student at the time, and the curriculum and seaside setting dovetailed with his flourishing interests in the ocean and marine organisms. He enjoyed the discussions and interactions that occurred in the course and published the results of his course project in the journal Experimental Cell Research.
Dr. Kessel has published more than 120 research and review articles, and is the author of five books on subjects including histology; scanning electron microscopy; and specialized techniques related to cell, tissue, and organ microscopy.
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