My Adventures in the Ribosome: The Cellular Machine that Reads our Genes

From Santa Fe Institute

Venki Ramakrishnan 30th Ulam Lecture Night 1 Ramakrishnan will provide a history of molecular visualization, as well as take us through his work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, where his team determined the atomic structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit and its complexes with ligands and antibiotics. Everyone is familiar with DNA, but by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome — an enormous molecular machine made up of a million ato...