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Marc Kirschner

Marc Kirschner

Harvard University
National Academy of Sciences Royal Society E.B. Wilson Medal

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In 1993, Dr. Marc Kirschner joined Harvard University where he became the founding chair of the Department of Cell Biology.  In 2003, he moved to Harvard Medical School to found the Department of Systems Biology. Research in Kirschner’s lab focuses on problems that require the coordination of biological events in time and space.  His lab has made significant contributions in embryology, cell cycle regulation and cellular organization.

Kirschner was an undergraduate student at Northwestern University and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.  After a brief stint as a post-doc at Berkeley and the University of Oxford, Kirschner joined the faculty at Princeton University. He later moved to the University of California, San Francisco where he was a professor for 15 years before moving to Harvard.

Kirschner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is also an elected foreign member of both the Royal Society and the Academia Europaea. In 2003, Kirschner was awarded the E.B. Wilson Medal, the highest honor of the American Society for Cell Biology.  Kirschner is the co-author, with John Gerhart, of two popular books Cells, Embryos and Evolution and The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma. Learn more about Kirschner’s research here.

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Evolvability

Evolvability is the capacity of an organism to generate novel, heritable, phenotypic changes. Marc Kirschner explains how evolvability happens and how we might better understand its role in biology. (Talk recorded in July 2018)

Evolvability: Marc Kirschner
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 39:52

Leaders in Biomedical Research: Rescuing Biomedical Research in the United States

Bruce Alberts, Marc Kirschner, Shirley Tilghman, Harold Varmus: leaders in biomedical research who have turned their attention to problems confronting the sustainability of basic research. (Talk recorded in August 2014)

Audience:
  • Researcher
Duration: 12:05

The Origin of Vertebrates, Hemichordates, and How Chordates Got Their Chord

Marc W. Kirschner describes how recent studies by a very small group of scientists on a virtually unknown phylum of marine organisms, the hemichordates, has helped explain some of the major mysteries of the origin of vertebrates. (Talk recorded in January 2008)

  • Part 1: The Origin of the Vertebrate Nervous System
    Part 1: The Origin of the Vertebrate Nervous System
    Duration: 33:31
  • Part 2: Telling the Back from the Front
    Part 2: Telling the Back from the Front
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 27:48
  • Part 3: How Chordates Got Their Chord
    Part 3: How Chordates Got Their Chord
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 19:10

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