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Corvallis Public Library<\/a> presents a public lecture on the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine by Viviana Perez<\/a>, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics. Perez will discuss the discoveries of Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi in her talk, “The Importance of Keeping Our Cells Clean” on Thursday, May 25, 5:15 pm-6:00 pm at the main meeting room in Corvallis Public Library.<\/p>\n

Ohsumi discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy<\/em>, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components about which little was known until his experiments to identify genes responsible for autophagy in the early 1990’s.<\/p>\n

Ohsumi’s research opened the path to understanding the fundamental importance of autophagy in many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection as well as its role in cancer and neurological disease.<\/p>\n

Perez will discuss both the basic science involved in the discoveries for which the Nobel Prize was awarded and why the work is important. Perez’s own research investigates aging and disease in humans through processes such as autophagy, protein homeostasis and other proteostasis mechanisms\u2014biological pathways that control the degradation of proteins present within and outside the cell.<\/p>\n

She also studies cellular senescence and the role of a drug called rapamycin in inhibiting cellular death and improving longevity in several species. Perez and her team made an important breakthrough recently when they were able to show that rapamycin is able to increase a regulator that activates genes to prevent the secretion of damaging and toxic compounds from aging cells. The latter is associated with a wide variety of degenerative diseases,\u00a0including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and neurologic disease, such as dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n

A study<\/a> just published in the journal,\u00a0 Aging Cell<\/em> by Perez and fellow Oregon State University researchers outlines a new understanding of how rapamycin works.<\/p>\n

The talk is sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and is a part of the department’s outreach activities to increase understanding and interest in science as well as share the work of Nobel laureates with the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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