Nobel chemist Huber talk set for April 7
Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Prof. Robert Huber (right), the eighth lecturer in the Nobel Laureates and Eminent Persons Lecture Series hosted at AIT will give a lecture on Wednesday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m. in the AIT Conference Center Auditorium. Prof. Huber will speak about 'Carbonmonoxide utilizing bacteria.' The series is the project of the International Peace Foundation in partnership with various organizations and institutions in Thailand.
Prof. Huber is a professor at the Technical University in Munich and former Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry. He began his work with studies of proteins involved in excitation energy and electron transfer, light-harvesting proteins, later bilin-binding protein, the reaction centre and in ascorbate oxidase. His work has led to the development of methods on protein crystallography and the elucidation of protein structures, which serve as targets for ligand design and development in medicine and plant protection including the key components of photosynthesis. It has also led to the development of Patterson search methods, to methods and suites of computer programmes to identify data evaluation and absorption of correction, for protein crystallographic computing, for computer graphics and electron density interpretation and refinement and for area detector data collection. These methods and programmes are in use in many laboratories in the world today.
There will be a Q&A; session to follow the lecture. Those wishing to talk more with the professor or share their research efforts with him can join him at a reception in the Conference Center Dining Hall after the lecture.
Instructions for viewing lectures online, as well as future listings and lecture archives can be seen at: http://www.dec.ait.ac.th/nobel. Seats can be reserved by sending e-mail to:pssu@ait.ac.th or call tel: 02 524-5830-31