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The Irvin Isenberg Memorial Lecture
6/30/08 - 4:00 PM - Lillie Auditorium
"The Neurobiology of Autism — At Last" - Martin Raff, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College of London
Martin Raff is Emeritus Professor in the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London. He received his B.Sc. in 1959 and his M.D. in 1963 from McGill University. He then pursued residencies in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Raff completed his postdoctoral training in immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research in London in 1969, after which he moved to University College London, where he became a professor of biology in 1979. He became Emeritus Professor in 2002.
A special British Society for Cell Biology meeting entitled “Cell Biology and Neurobiology: A Meeting for Martin Raff,” took place in July, 2002, celebrating his many contributions to science and reflecting his broad interests in cell biology, developmental biology, neurobiology of behavior, psychiatric disease, ethics, and science education.
Dr. Raff is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of Academia Europaea, a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past president of the British Society of Cell Biology, and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and served as an adviser to the NAS in formulating its Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in 2005. He received The Biochemical Society Award in 2006.
He is a co-author of two cell biology books—Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology.
About the Irvin Isenberg Memorial Lecture
The Irvin Isenberg Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Dr. Isenberg, whose distinguished career as a biophysicist began at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
In 1950, Dr. Isenberg completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Pennsylvania and later developed an interest in biophysics while serving as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. In 1957, Dr. Isenberg and his family moved to Woods Hole, where he joined Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi in his Institute for Muscle Research. Together they studied charge transfer reactions and free radicals using one of the early electron spin resonance instruments available in the United States. Dr. Isenberg also conducted research on fluorescence and phosphorescence of DNA before leaving the MBL in 1965 to become Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry at Oregon State University. There he developed his primary research interest in the structure and function of histones.
The Isenberg family returned to Woods Hole every summer to rejoin beloved friends and to remain active participants in the scientific life of the community. Dr. Isenberg devoted his life to science and is remembered for instilling a strong sense of intellectual curiosity and integrity in the pursuit of scientific truth among his students. Today, we celebrate Dr. Isenberg’s legacy by dedicating this lecture in his honor.
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