November 21, 2014

Kevin Weeks to Give Inaugural Distinguished Nucleic Acids Lectures Dec. 4-5

Dr. Kevin Weeks, the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will visit Carnegie Mellon University on Dec. 4-5 as the inaugural Distinguished Nucleic Acids Lecturer. Weeks will give two seminars as part of the new lecture series sponsored by the Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology and the Carnegie Mellon Department of Chemistry.

His first seminar, titled “Toward an RNA structure of everything, concisely,” will be held at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 4 in the Mellon Institute Conference Room at Carnegie Mellon University. A reception will follow this event.

His second seminar, titled “Chemical microscopes and the RNA structural codes of viruses and cells” will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 in the Mellon Institute Conference Room at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Weeks has received numerous awards for his research, notably being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and a life member of Clare House at the University of Cambridge in 2014. His research involves structural and chemical biology of the RNA transcriptome and has led to the development of widely used methods, including SHAPE analysis.

For brief abstracts of the two seminars, please see the event poster.