The Chicago Council on Science and Technology & Children’s Memorial Research Center Present:
Lecture, Book signing and Dinner with
Best-Selling Author Rebecca Skloot
Featuring Special Guests, Veteran Journalist Bill Kurtis
and WLS TV’s John Garcia,
on November 16
If anyone knows about cells, it’s Dr. Linda Hicke. Former Assistant Professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, Dr. Hicke is now Associate Vice President for Research at Northwestern University. Cell biology has been her entire career.
With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Hicke’s research interest is the role of ubiquitin in regulating protein traffic in eukaryotic cells, a subject that she has published about widely in journals such as Cell, Molecular Cell, The EMBO Journal, Nature Cell Biology and the Journal of Cell Biology.
Continue reading “Interview with Dr. Linda Hicke of Northwestern University”
By Jeanne Kolker
Excerpts are taken from Jeanne Kolker interview with Rebecca Skloot for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Since the book was published, has anyone else come forward and told you anything you wish you could have included in the book?
Not in terms of the story of the HeLa cells and the progress of it. One of the questions that often comes up is, “Why did HeLa cells grow when no other cells did?” The answer is we don’t exactly know. Continue reading “Wisconsin States Interview with Rebecca Skloot”
Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of HEnrietta LAcks tells the story of the Lacks family and how their mother’s cells changed medical research. Skloot’s book fills in details about Henrietta’s life and the cervical cancer that provided science with the first cell line, HeLa.
Without her knowledge, Henrietta Lacks’ (HeLa) cells were collected and used for cervical cancer research. These immortalized cells – reproducing still today – would eventually be used to generate the first-ever human cell line and distributed world-wide for use in millions of experiments benefiting human health from the polio vaccine to gene mapping.
While the effects of climate change will vary across different ecosystems and sectors, the Great Lakes region is expected to experience large changes in climate during the 21st century. Hear about the impacts of these changes on Great Lakes ecosystems and livelihoods and discuss what the region needs to do to adapt to those changes.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a great resource of Great Lakes information.
Check out a few of these tid-bits:
Water Surface Area: 95,000 square miles (245,759 square km). Largest surface area of freshwater in the world.
