Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt attracts huge audiences at public lectures in Singapore and Thailand
22 April – Bangkok, Thailand
24 April - Singapore
On 22 and 24 April 2009, Professor Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS, gave public lectures in Bangkok and Singapore, receiving a huge turn out. Sir Tim’s lecture entitled ‘Getting In and Out of Mitosis: The Control of Cell Division,’ explored various aspects of cell cycle transitions: the initiation of cell replication, the onset of mitosis, and the return to the stage of growth at the end of the cell division and covered his pioneering work on frog egg extracts which gave rise to the discovery of the proteins that play a key role in the regulation of cell division. All organisms are made up of cells that multiply through cell division, and there is an enormous number of continuously dividing cells that replace the dying ones. Our understanding of the regulation of this process is a pressing problem in cell biology. Sir Tim spoke about his approaches, difficulties and findings in this area.
Sir Tim Hunt is an English biochemist. In 1990, he began work at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, now known as the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute in the United Kingdom. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1991 and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1999. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland Hartwell and Sir Paul Nurse for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation. In 2006 he was awarded the Royal Medal for 'discovering a key aspect of cell cycle control, demonstrating his ability to grasp the significance of the result outside his immediate sphere of interest'. The Queen knighted him in the same year.
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