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MBL Distinguished Alumni Lecture
 Saturday, June 7, 2003 - Whitman Auditorium, 9:15 AM
From the Embryology Course to the Cell Division Cycle and Cancer
Joan Ruderman, Ph.D., Nelson Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Lecture Abstract:
Many biologists around the world remember their time in an MBL summer course or an MBL summer research project as one of their most valuable experiences, often having important impacts on future research careers, collaborations, and personal friendships. For Joan Ruderman, the 1974 Embryology course was all this and more.
Joan Ruderman, Ph.D. Dr. Joan Ruderman received her B.A. in biology from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also did postdoctoral work. She joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Anatomy, and later served on the faculty at Duke University in the Department of Zoology. In 1989, she returned to Harvard Medical School, where she is currently the Nelson Professor of Cell Biology.
Dr. Ruderman’s association with the MBL began when, between receiving her Ph.D. and starting her postdoc, she took the Embryology Course in 1974. She returned to the Embryology course in 1976, where she spent several years, first as an instructor and later as co-director. She also maintained a summer research laboratory at the MBL for more than 20 years, where she studied how fertilization of clam oocytes activates cell division and early embryonic development.
Dr. Ruderman was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2002. She has served on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Advisory Board since 2000. In 2003, she received the Mendelsohn Award for Excellence in Mentoring from Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At the MBL, Dr. Ruderman has served on numerous committees of both the Corporation and the Board of Trustees, and was co-chair of the MBL Daycare Committee for several years.
The Ruderman Laboratory now focuses its efforts in two areas: how mitotic kinases regulate progression through mitosis, the last stage of the cell division cycle, and how steroid hormones activate poorly understood cytoplasmic (non-transcriptional) signal transduction pathways.
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