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Richard Losick

Richard Losick

Harvard University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Canada Gairdner Award National Academy of Sciences

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Richard Losick is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, and a Harvard College Professor. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. He was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow in 1969, and he joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1972. He is a past chairman of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology. He teaches the introductory course on molecular biology at Harvard College, and is Head Tutor for the undergraduate concentration in Biochemical Sciences.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a former Visiting Scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is the 2007 winner of the Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The Human Microbiome: Are We More Microbial than Human?

Are we more microbial than human? Richard Losick discusses the human microbiome and how there are 10 times more bacterial cells on us and inside us than human cells. (Talk recorded in July 2013)

Richard Losick
Audience:
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 21:55

Developmental Biology of a Simple Organism: Bacillus subtilis

Richard Losick describes spore formation, the formation of multicellular communities, and a bet hedging strategy in the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. (Talk recorded in April 2008)

  • Part 1: Spore Formation in B. Subtilis
    Part 1: Spore Formation in B. Subtilis
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 28:57
  • Part 2: New Research on Multicellularity
    Part 2: New Research on Multicellularity
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 18:13
  • Part 3: Stochasticity and Cell Fate
    Part 3: Stochasticity and Cell Fate
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 25:03

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