Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie, professor of chemistry at Columbia University, will speak on “Guarantor Transcription Factors in Cell Differentiation” as the 2017 Paterson Lecture in London on Thursday, March 30.

Dr. Chalfie received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein. The discovery has completely changed the landscape of biomedical research and represents the most common way of labelling protein in cells and animals. Chalfie has continued to provide biological insights into nerve cell development and function, and the mechanisms of neurodegeneration.

The Paterson Lecture Series is hosted by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, in honour of the late James Charteris Paterson, a professor in the department from 1965 to his death in 1972.

The March 30 lecture will take place at 9 a.m. in Auditorium A of the University Hospital, 339 Windermere Road, London.