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Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize Winner, to Visit IMET

Sir Richard Roberts will visit IMET on 4th September 2013 to present a seminar. Dr. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was educated in England, attending the University of Sheffield where he obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968. His postdoctoral research was carried out in Professor J.L. Strominger's laboratory at Harvard, where he studied the tRNAs that are involved in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls. From 1972 to 1992, he worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, reaching the position of Assistant Director for Research under Dr. J.D. Watson. He began work on the newly discovered Type II restriction enzymes in 1972 and in the next few years more than 100 such enzymes were discovered and characterized in Dr. Roberts' laboratory. Dr. Roberts has also been involved in studies of Adenovirus-2 and discovered split genes and mRNA splicing in 1977 for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in1993. His laboratory sequenced the 35,937 nucleotide Adenovirus-2 genome, and wrote some of the first programs for sequence assembly and analysis. DNA methyltransferases are an area of active research interest and, in collaboration with Dr. X. Cheng, DNA base flipping was discovered in 1993. Current interests focus on the identification of restriction enzyme and methylase genes within the GenBank database and the development of rapid methods to assay their function.

Dr. Roberts' visit will be hosted by Dr. Shil DasSarma.

Relevant articles by Dr. Roberts:

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