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The Hayashi Lectureship
6/24/08 - 9:00 AM - Lillie Auditorium
"Getting In and Out of Mitosis"
Tim Hunt, Cancer Research UK
Tim Hunt received his B.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1968. He joined the Cancer Research UK (formerly the Imperial Cancer Research Fund) in 1990 and since 1991 he has been a Principal Scientist. He pursued his postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Dr. Hunt taught in the Embyryology course at the MBL in 1977 and 1979, and in the Physiology course from 1980 to 1983. Dr. Hunt received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 (jointly awarded with Paul Nurse and Lee Hartwell).
Dr. Hunt works on the control of the cell cycle. His research focuses on understanding how cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) trigger cell cycle transitions, how the timing of cyclin proteolysis is regulated, and most recently, on the control of the protein phosphatases that oppose the action of the CDKs.
About the Hayashi Lectureship
The Tay Hayashi Lectureship in Cell Physiology was established to pay tribute to a scientist who holds a special place in the hearts and minds of his friends, colleagues, and students.
Teru Hayashi, known by all with affection as “Tay,” needs little introduction here at the MBL. As research mentor, professor, and chairman at Columbia University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Tay had a profound influence on his field and on budding researchers for more than 50 years. His work on actin remains fundamental to current research, and includes the first quantitative demonstration of the contribution of actin to myosin-based tension development in vitro, and the discovery of “barbed end” actin assembly.
Tay first conducted summer research at the MBL as a graduate student in 1938. He later joined the world-renowned MBL muscle motility group, ultimately playing a vital role in the Laboratory’s institutional growth and development. Moreover, as noted by a dear friend, “his tremendous contributions to tennis, poker, naughty songs, and fishing are legendary.” In short, Tay was the embodiment of the spirit of the Woods Hole community, and of the scientific achievement and intellectual freedom synonymous with the MBL. Today we celebrate and remember that lifelong achievement, precious freedom, and indomitable spirit with the third Tay Hayashi Lecture in Cell Physiology.
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