Gavin Borden Visiting Fellow

Joan A. Steitz, Ph. D., Sterling Professor and Chair of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, was the Laboratory's 7th Gavin Borden Visiting Fellow. A former Trustee of CSHL, Dr. Steitz presented a lecture titled "Mechanisms of mRNA Export and Stability" on April 23 in Grace Auditorium. The Gavin Borden Lecture series was named in memory of Gavin Borden, a publisher whose Molecular Biology of the Cell and other books made a lasting impression on many scientists, both old and new.