When
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2018
Matthew Cobb, the 2016-2017 Sydney Brenner Research Scholarship recipient, will be presenting a special lecture on the research project for which he received the award. Matthew is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behavior, and the history of science. A contributor to The Guardian and frequent guest expert on BBC Radio, he is a terrific writer. His most recent book is Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, and he is also the author of The Egg & Sperm Race and Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth, and acclaimed accounts of the French Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944. He has translated several books from French into English.
The lecture was present at Cold Spring Harbor on May 10, 2018.