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Marc Kirschner, the Glossary

Marc Wallace Kirschner (born February 28, 1945) is an American cell biologist and biochemist and the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.^[1]

58 relations: Academia Europaea, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society for Cell Biology, Anaphase-promoting complex, Animal embryonic development, Blackwell's, Bruce Alberts, Canada Gairdner International Award, Cell cycle, Chicago, Chordate, Cyclin, Cyclin B, Cytoskeleton, E.B. Wilson Medal, Eukaryote, Evolvability, Facilitated variation, Galit Lahav, Harold E. Varmus, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Harvey Prize, Hemichordate, Howard Kapnek Schachman, John Franklin Enders, John Gurdon, Joseph B. Martin, Microtubule, Monomer, National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Northwestern University, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, PLOS Biology, Postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University, Reinhart Heinrich, Richard Lounsbery Award, Royal Society, Saccoglossus, Shirley M. Tilghman, Signal transduction, Systems biology, Tau protein, Tim Mitchison, Tim Stearns, ... Expand index (8 more) »
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Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) is a learned society that was founded on December 26, 1906, at a meeting organized by John Jacob Abel (Johns Hopkins University).

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American Society for Cell Biology

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.

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Anaphase-promoting complex (also called the cyclosome or APC/C) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that marks target cell cycle proteins for degradation by the 26S proteasome.

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Animal embryonic development

In developmental biology, animal embryonic development, also known as animal embryogenesis, is the developmental stage of an animal embryo.

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Blackwell's

Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones.

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Bruce Alberts

Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Emeritus Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. Marc Kirschner and Bruce Alberts are Foreign Members of the Royal Society.

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Canada Gairdner International Award

The Canada Gairdner International Award is given annually by the Gairdner Foundation at a special dinner to five individuals for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science.

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Cell cycle

The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the sequential series of events that take place in a cell that causes it to divide into two daughter cells.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chordate

A chordate is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.

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Cyclin

Cyclins are proteins that control the progression of a cell through the cell cycle by activating cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK).

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Cyclin B

Cyclin B is a member of the cyclin family.

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Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton is a complex, dynamic network of interlinking protein filaments present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including those of bacteria and archaea.

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E.B. Wilson Medal

The E.B. Wilson Medal is the American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for science and is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career.

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Eukaryote

The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.

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Evolvability

Evolvability is defined as the capacity of a system for adaptive evolution. Marc Kirschner and Evolvability are Extended evolutionary synthesis.

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Facilitated variation

The theory of facilitated variation demonstrates how seemingly complex biological systems can arise through a limited number of regulatory genetic changes, through the differential re-use of pre-existing developmental components. Marc Kirschner and facilitated variation are Extended evolutionary synthesis.

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Galit Lahav

Galit Lahav (born 1973) is an Israeli-American systems biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. Marc Kirschner and Galit Lahav are 21st-century American biologists and Harvard Medical School faculty.

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Harold E. Varmus

Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Marc Kirschner and Harold E. Varmus are Foreign Members of the Royal Society and Jewish American scientists.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvey Prize

Harvey Prize is an annual Israeli award for breakthroughs in science and technology, as well as contributions to peace in the Middle East granted by the Technion in Haifa.

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Hemichordate

Hemichordata is a phylum which consists of triploblastic, enterocoelomate, and bilaterally symmetrical marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms.

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Howard Kapnek Schachman

Howard Kapnek Schachman (December 5, 1918 – August 5, 2016) was a graduate school professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Marc Kirschner and Howard Kapnek Schachman are Jewish American scientists.

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John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Marc Kirschner and John Franklin Enders are Foreign Members of the Royal Society.

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John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.

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Joseph B. Martin

Joseph Boyd Martin (born October 20, 1938, in Bassano, Alberta) is a Canadian physician who is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Marc Kirschner and Joseph B. Martin are Harvard Medical School faculty.

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Microtubule

Microtubules are polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton and provide structure and shape to eukaryotic cells.

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Monomer

A monomer (mono-, "one" + -mer, "part") is a molecule that can react together with other monomer molecules to form a larger polymer chain or three-dimensional network in a process called polymerization.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) is a grant awarded annually by the National Science Foundation to approximately 2,000 students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US institutions.

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PLOS Biology

PLOS Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology.

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Postdoctoral researcher

A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD).

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Reinhart Heinrich

Reinhart Heinrich (24 April 1946 – 23 October 2006) was a German biophysicist. Marc Kirschner and Reinhart Heinrich are systems biologists.

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Richard Lounsbery Award

The Richard Lounsbery Award is given to American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, in recognition of "extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine." The Award alternates between French and American scientists, and is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in alternating years to a scientist from the other country.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Saccoglossus

Saccoglossus is a genus of acorn worm (Class Enteropneusta).

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Shirley M. Tilghman

Shirley Marie Tilghman, (née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator.

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Signal transduction

Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events.

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Systems biology

Systems biology is the computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems.

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Tau protein

The tau proteins (abbreviated from tubulin associated unit) form a group of six highly soluble protein isoforms produced by alternative splicing from the gene MAPT (microtubule-associated protein tau).

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Tim Mitchison

Timothy John Mitchison is a cell biologist and systems biologist and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School in the United States. Marc Kirschner and Tim Mitchison are systems biologists.

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Tim Stearns

Tim Stearns (born 1961 in Huntington, New York) is an American biologist and university administrator, and is the Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, Vice President of Education, and Head of Laboratory at The Rockefeller University.

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Ubiquitin

Ubiquitin is a small (8.6 kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e., it is found ''ubiquitously''.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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William C. Rose Award

The William C. Rose Award given by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology recognizes outstanding contributions to biochemical and molecular biological research and a demonstrated commitment to the training of younger scientists, as epitomized by the late American nutritionist William Cumming Rose.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kirschner

Also known as Marc W Kirschner, Marc W. Kirschner, Marc Wallace Kirschner.

, Ubiquitin, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, University of Oxford, William C. Rose Award, Wnt signaling pathway, Xenopus, Yale University Press.

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