Alumni joined the Nicholson Lecture at Rockefeller University in New York
The Greater NY-Region Alumni Network recently met for its second time at The Rockefeller University in conjuction with the annual Nicholson Lecture organized by the university. This year, Professor Rickard Sandberg, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, was invited to give a lecture on “Single-Cell Technologies to Study Transcriptional Bursting and Alternative Splicing Regulation”.
After the lecture, The Rockefeller University graciously hosted our networking event at the Faculty Club. In addition to Professor Sandberg, we had the great pleasure of having Dr. Torsten Wiesel and his wife, Mu, attend our event. Dr. Wiesel graduated from KI 1954 and shortly afterwards moved to the U.S. for his postdoc. In 1981, he received the Nobel Price for his research in neuroscience and served as the president of The Rockefeller University between 1991 and 1998. At the networking event, Dr. Wiesel spoke with each of us to learn what we are working on and our studies at KI.
The networking event was very successful, a collaboration between KI Alumni Ambassador Håkan Gadler, the KI Alumni Relations Office and Rockefeller University, and we hope to make organizing a networking event in conjunction with the Nicholson Lecture a tradition.
Karolinska Institutet has an extensive cooperation agreement with the Rockefeller University and the initial agreement covers three exchange programmes: Nicholson Lectures Programme, Nicholson Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme and Nicholson Exchange Programme for Research, Education, Technical/Administrative and Resource Center Staff.
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