Undergraduate Life Science Research Symposium
Robert Horvitz, the 2002 Nobel laureate in Medicine or Physiology, will be the keynote speaker at the UMass Undergraduate Life Science Research Symposium.
Horvitz, who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology at MIT, will speak on "Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease."
He shared the Nobel with Sydney Brenner of The Salk Institute, and John Sulston of the Sanger Centre for his studies in programmed cell death.
The symposium, which begins with a poster session at 1:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Auditorium, will showcase interdisciplinary science research at the undergraduate level.
The Junior Fellows in the Life Sciences and the Symposium Committee are hosting the event, which is sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Award to the campus. The Commonwealth College is also a sponsor.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Students interested in presenting their research can submit their abstracts online. Abstract submission deadline is April 11.
