When
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm
Location
Carnegie Library Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Library Event in the Szybalski Reading Room:
Anna Marie Skalka will discuss her book, Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere
Program: book discussion 5:30-6:30 pm,
book signing and reception 6:30-7:30 pm
Copies of Discovering Retroviruses are available for purchase at the CSHL Bookstore and at the event.
Dr. Anna Marie Skalka is Professor Emerita and former Sr. VP for Basic Science and W.W. Smith Chair in Cancer Research at the Institute for Cancer Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Skalka is internationally recognized for her research on viral oncogenesis, especially the mechanisms of retroviral replication and insertion. Anna received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from NYU Medical School in 1964, and is an alumna of Cold Spring Harbor and a member of the Phage Group, conducting her postdoctoral work with Al Hershey until his retirement in 1968.
Dr. Skalka has published more than 240 papers and edited several books. She is the author of Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere and co-author of the widely acclaimed textbook Principles of Virology.
Dr. Skalka has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology; and has received the 2018 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement and Communication, among other awards.
This lecture is now available on YouTube: