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Joan Steitz

Joan Steitz

Yale University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Canada Gairdner Award Lasker Award National Academy of Sciences

Joan Steitz is a Professor at the Yale School of Medicine, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Steitz continues to study RNA splicing, and her lab has identified several other types of RNPs. While Steitz’s science is renowned, she is also applauded for her mentoring and teaching skills

Talks with this Speaker

SNURPs and Serendipity

Joan Steitz tells us of the importance of serendipity in the discovery of SNURPS, the small nuclear ribonucleoproteins that are key to the splicing of pre-messenger RNA. (Talk recorded in October 2010)

SNURPs and Serendipity: Joan Steitz
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 10:39

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