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Monday, February 2, 2009 at 05:36AM Futures in Biotech 38: It IS Easy Being Green!
Talking green fluorescent protein with Dr. Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry...
Host: Dr. Marc Pelletier
Guest Host: Dr. Glen Ernstrom
Guest:Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Colombia University, New York, NY. Here is Part II with Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
In this episode, he describes how he figured out that he could use the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow in the dark as a molecular tag, allowing us to track the life of a protein in a living cell. This is one of the most important tools in molecular biology, kind of at the scale of when Galileo invented the telescope ; ) Now we can watch the birth and movement of living proteins...
Listen
Some interesting links: 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Interview with Awardees
Audible.com/biotech:Free Book Audible Pick:The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, by George Johnson, Narrated by Dion Graham.
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Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes. Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
Host: Dr. Marc Pelletier
Guest Host: Dr. Glen Ernstrom
Guest:Dr. Martin Chalfie; Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Colombia University, New York, NY. Here is Part II with Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
In this episode, he describes how he figured out that he could use the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow in the dark as a molecular tag, allowing us to track the life of a protein in a living cell. This is one of the most important tools in molecular biology, kind of at the scale of when Galileo invented the telescope ; ) Now we can watch the birth and movement of living proteins...
Listen
Some interesting links: 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Interview with Awardees
Audible.com/biotech:Free Book Audible Pick:The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, by George Johnson, Narrated by Dion Graham.
GoToMeeting Free Trial
Transcripts to the shows are now available on the FiB Extras blog thanks tom.price@podsinprint.com, PodsinPrint Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes. Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.
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