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...Death," Hudson said, "is a gradual process at the cellular level, with tissues varying in their ability to withstand deprivation of oxygen. Medical interest, however, lies not in the preservation of isolated cells but in the fate of a person. Here the point of death is not so important as the certainty that the process has become irreversible...
Fotis C. Kafatos, assistant professor of Biology and popular lecturer in Biology 15b, has spent the last two years investigating the cellular and molecular aspects of cell differentiation (how the cell decides what role it will play). Kafatos, a 28-year-old Greek citizen, has already published a dozen scientific communications which have received international attention. The editors of Nature cited his scientific promise and the crucial nature of his work in a rare burst of praise in the May, 1967, issue. Born in Crete, he came to America immediately after high school and enrolled at Cornell University. He finished...
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Puzzled by the changing function of the moth's old silk tubes and fascinated by the process which commits cells to their various fates, Kafatos turned to developmental biology on the cellular level. He presents his own findings in this field in two lectures in his course. He often involves his undergraduates, as well as his graduate students, in his projects. Kafatos is investigating both how cells become specialized and how they sometimes change from one specific function to another. These questions are crucial for man's understanding of the cell's nature. Furthermore, since cancerous cells are previously normal...
...members for every student, and it expects its fellows to be more than usually resourceful and independent in their academic work. Oriented primarily to careers in research, the university has no departments as such. Instead, instruction is administered through informal interdisciplinary seminars in fields ranging from cardiac physiology to cellular immunology. Students propose their own course curriculum after an initial six-month period of orientation, move into independent study and research only when they feel ready. Except for a final comprehensive exam, tests are rare-but each fellow must deliver a public lecture on his thesis topic...