Annual Activities Report 2011 - INCT-Inofar - UFRJ

Annual Report 2011 | INCT-INOFAR
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Scientific
Education and
Awareness
Nobel Prize
in Chemistry
Conference
at UFRJ
Professor Martin Chalfie retells the story
of the Green Fluorescent Protein and
explains its power to “enlighten life”
INCT-INOFAR was part of the conference with the 2008 Nobel Prize winner, Prof.
Martin Chalfie, where he was part of the commencement of the National Week of
Science and Technology 2011, at the Complexo do Alemao in Rio de Janeiro. Before the
event, the Nobel Prize winner lectured at the Chemistry Graduate Program in UFRJ.
At the conference titled “Fluorescent Proteins (GFP): Enlightening Life”, on October
17 2011 at UFRJ, Prof. Martin Chalfie, in a humorous retelling, narrated his scientific
trajectory in the studies of GFP to an audience filled with High School students. This is
the research field who led him to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008, alongside
Osamo Shimomura and Roger Tsein. Martin Chalfie is a professor in the Department of
Biological Sciences at Columbia University, in the USA.
INCT-INOFAR, through the Pharmaceuticals Portal, covered the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry conference at UFRJ.