UPDATE - For personal reasons, Stephen has had to pospone this week's talk. More details to follow on a future date when available. 

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Dr Stephen Goff: "Silencing of Retroviral DNAs: Keeping the Wolves at Bay"

Dr. Stephen P. Goff is Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University Medical Centre. He received the A.B. degree in Biophysics from Amherst College in 1973. His graduate work with Dr. Paul Berg at Stanford University focused on the use of SV40 as a viral vector for the expression of foreign DNAs in mammalian cells. He did postdoctoral work with Dr. David Baltimore at MIT on the replication of the murine leukemia viruses as a Jane Coffin Childs fellow, and joined the Columbia faculty in 1981. 

Awards: Goff was a Searle Scholar and has received two MERIT awards from the NIH.  He has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Amherst College in 1997, and was the inaugural recipient of the Retrovirus Prize in 2005. He has mentored over 35 graduate students and 35 postdoctoral fellows in his laboratories at Columbia. He has authored or coauthored over 300 publications on viral replication and oncogenesis.