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["Patcharee Basu" <>]

Dear Folks,

Asian Institute of Technology(AIT) will broadcast "Bridges - Dialogues
Towards a Culture of Peace: NOBEL Laureates' and Eminent Persons' Lectures"
from Thailand.  A series of lectures will be held starting from November
2003 to April 2004 and AIT will provide the streaming service, both
Multicast and Unicast. The schedule and details of the broadcasted lectures
can be found at http://www.dec.ait.ac.th/nobel/.


The first lecture, "Health as an Imperative to Peace and Peace as an
Imperative to Health" by Prof. Joshua Lederberg., will be held on Nov 19th
at 14:00 (GMT +7).

Prof. Joshua Lederberg is an American geneticist and pioneer in the field of
bacterial genetics who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine (with George W.
Beadle and Edward L. Tatum) for discovering the mechanisms of gentic
recombination in bacteria.  He studied under Tatum in Yale and taught at the
University of Wisconsin where he established the Department of Medical
Genetics.  In 1959 he joined the Faculty of Stanford Medical School serving
as Director of the Kennedy Laboratories of Molecular Medicine from 1962 to
1978, when he moved to New York City to become President of the Rockefeller
University. He held that post until 1990. Prof. Lederberg's discoveries
greatly increased the utility of bacteria as a tool in genetics research.
His discovery of transduction provided the first hint that genes could be
inserted into cells. The realization that the genetic material of living
things could be directly manipulated bore fruit in the field of genetic
engineering, or recombinant DNA technology.

Best regards,
Patcharee