10th Lecture, 27 April 2021, 6.00 pm
PI, The Archaeology of the Mind Lab, Egyptology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Honorary Professor, University of Göttingen
Host: Giulio Superti-Furga
The lecture will be hosted on Zoom.
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Orly Goldwasser is a Full Professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen. She was visiting professor at several renowned universities, among them Harvard University and the Collège de France. Her article “How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs” won the “Best of BAR” award for 2009–2010 of the Biblical Archaeology Society. Her research interests range from the semiotic reconstruction of the early alphabet’s invention out of Egyptian hieroglyphs to reconstructing “mindmaps” of ancient cultures according to information embedded in their complex script systems.
Recently her Archaeomind lab embarked on a computerized comparison of semantic classifiers in the Ancient Chinese and Ancient Egyptian scripts.
Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK, Co-Founder of the Global Human Cell Atlas Consortium
The Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time
10 May 2021, 6.00 pm
The lecture will be hosted on Zoom.
Host: Giulio Superti-Furga
Sarah Teichmann is interested in global principles of regulation of gene expression and protein complexes, with a focus on immunity. Sarah did her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. She started her group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001, discovering stereotypical pathways of assembly and evolution of protein complexes during this time. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton/Cambridge, jointly with the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI). In February 2016 she became Head of the Cellular Genetics Programme at the WSI and co-founded the Human Cell Atlas international initiative which she continues to lead. Sarah was elected a member of EMBO in 2012, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015 and a fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.
