Science, Politics and People: in Conversation with Venki Ramakrishnan
This year we welcomed Nobel Prize winner and newly elected Honorary Fellow, Venki Ramakrishnan, biologist and former President of the Royal Society to talk about how to win a Nobel Prize, science during Brexit and Covid, and his new work on ageing and death.
Venki is a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He works on the structure and function of the ribosome, an enormous molecular complex that uses genetic information in our DNA to synthesize the proteins they specify. His work also showed how many antibiotics work by blocking bacterial ribosomes, which could help to design better antibiotics. For this work, he shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From 2015-2020, he was president of the Royal Society during Brexit and at the start of the pandemic.
Venki is also the author of a popular memoir, Gene Machine, a frank description of the race for the structure of the ribosome and the science and personalities involved.
Filmed in the Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College in November 2021.
Негізгі бет The Provost's Lecture 2021 with Queen's Honorary Fellow, Venki Ramakrishnan
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