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The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
7/11/09 - 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium
"Epigenetics, Chromatin Remodeling and Mammalian Development"
Terry Magnuson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
Terry Magnuson was recruited to Carolina in 2000 as founding chair of the Department of Genetics and director of the newly established Carolina Center for Genome Sciences. He also created the Cancer Genetics Program in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. A founding member of the International Mammalian Genome Society, Magnuson served on the external advisory committee for the Mouse Genome Database at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and is currently the Chair of the Jackson Laboratory Board of Scientific Overseers. He served on the board of directors of the Society for Developmental Biology and also for the Genetics Society of America. He was appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to help establish guidelines for work with human embryonic stem cells. He was elected to the American Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the AAAS in 2009. The work in the Magnuson lab focuses on the role of mammalian genes in unique epigenetic phenomena such as genomic imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation. The lab also studies the tumor suppressor role of the BAF/PBAF chromatin remodeling complexes and has developed a novel genome-wide mutagenesis strategy.
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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