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El salón donde di esta plática también fue el salón No 11, en uno de los nuevos edificios del lado oriente de la Facultad. Cuando llegué, Gloria y unas asistentes ya estaban ahí, los alumnos fueron llegando poco a poco, y el proyector más poco a poco aún; de tal manera que la platica se retraso unos 30min.
Al final, su grupo vio el punto de vista bioquímico, molecular e histórico, desde las Unidades Discretas de la Herencia de Mendel, hasta la síntesis de proteínas, para lo cual nos ayudo una simulación animada en tiempo real. Pasando por el concepto de Gen de Johannsen, la bioquímica de los ácidos nucleicos, los patrones de difracción de rayos X de Astbury, los trabajos de Avery, MacLeod y McCarty, y Hershey y Chase, la Triple Hélice de Linus Pauling y Corey, la triple y la Doble Hélice de Franklin, Crick, Watson y Wilkins, la duplicación y transcripción del ADN, y el empalme del ARN. Al hablar de la cristalografía de rayos X del ADN cité una visita en la que acompañe al Dr. H. Viadiu al acelerador de partículas de la Universidad de Cornell, NY, en las mismas semanas en que la Dra. Portales hacia su trabajo de doctorado en Doñana, España. Cuando ella vio una foto suya en esta exposición, monitoreando liebres con equipo de radio en Doñana, le trajo recuerdos muy emotivos de esa época de postgrado.
Esa visita a la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM, la revisión de algún artículo para publicación del Dr. R. Cappello, mi trabajo actual en informática, y las colaboraciones con otros colegas en la Enciclopedia de México, el CONACYT, la oficina de patentes Ladrón de Guevara y García SC., MicroBrightField Inc., la extinta ICYT, el INEGI y con el Dr. J. Lagunez, en el Instituto de Química de la UNAM, me motivaron a abrir este Blog sobre ciencia y tecnología.
Remembering the visit to the Faculty of Science at the UNAM, one year ago.
One year and eleven days ago, Ph D. Gloria Portales invited me to give a lecture to her Earth Sciences students of the Faculty of Science, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), on DNA, Crick & Watson Double Helix Model, and RNA processing. I wanted to start this Blog on Oct 22nd to celebrate the anniversary of the lecture, by thanking Ph D. Portales her invitation, but it was posible just 11 days after that, weird!
The classroom reserved for the speech was also the No 11, located in one of the new buildings of the east side of the Faculty. When I arrived, Gloria and two assistants were already there, the students started to come later, in small groups, and the projector appeared even later, so the lecture started 30min after time.
The students saw the biochemical, molecular and historical approach, from Mendel’s Discrete Units of Heredity, up to the protein synthesis, supported by a real-time animated simulation. Going through Johannsen’s Gene concept, the biochemistry of nucleic acids, Astbury’s X-Ray diffraction pattern, the experiments of Avery, MacLeod & McCarty, and Hershey & Chase, Linus Pauling and Corey’s Triple Helix, Franklin, Crick, Watson and Wilkins triple and Double Helix, DNA synthesis and transcription, and RNA splicing. While talking about DNA X-Ray crystallography I quoted a visit, with Ph.D. H. Viadiu, to Cornell’s University Synchrotron, NY, by the time Ph. D. G. Portales was making her graduate studies in Doñana, Spain. A picture of her, monitoring hares with a radio device in Doñana, seemed to bring her touching memories of those graduate days.
That visit to UNAM’s Faculty of Science, the review of some publication paper for Ph. D. Cappello, my current work on Informatics, and other collaborations with colleagues from the Enciclopedia de México, CONACYT, Ladrón de Guevara y García SC. patent office, MicroBrightField Inc., the extinct ICYT, INEGI and with Ph.D. J. Lagunez, in the UNAM’s Institute of Chemistry, have encouraged me to open this blog about Science & Technology.
I thank them, they’re always on my mind.
The classroom reserved for the speech was also the No 11, located in one of the new buildings of the east side of the Faculty. When I arrived, Gloria and two assistants were already there, the students started to come later, in small groups, and the projector appeared even later, so the lecture started 30min after time.
The students saw the biochemical, molecular and historical approach, from Mendel’s Discrete Units of Heredity, up to the protein synthesis, supported by a real-time animated simulation. Going through Johannsen’s Gene concept, the biochemistry of nucleic acids, Astbury’s X-Ray diffraction pattern, the experiments of Avery, MacLeod & McCarty, and Hershey & Chase, Linus Pauling and Corey’s Triple Helix, Franklin, Crick, Watson and Wilkins triple and Double Helix, DNA synthesis and transcription, and RNA splicing. While talking about DNA X-Ray crystallography I quoted a visit, with Ph.D. H. Viadiu, to Cornell’s University Synchrotron, NY, by the time Ph. D. G. Portales was making her graduate studies in Doñana, Spain. A picture of her, monitoring hares with a radio device in Doñana, seemed to bring her touching memories of those graduate days.
That visit to UNAM’s Faculty of Science, the review of some publication paper for Ph. D. Cappello, my current work on Informatics, and other collaborations with colleagues from the Enciclopedia de México, CONACYT, Ladrón de Guevara y García SC. patent office, MicroBrightField Inc., the extinct ICYT, INEGI and with Ph.D. J. Lagunez, in the UNAM’s Institute of Chemistry, have encouraged me to open this blog about Science & Technology.
I thank them, they’re always on my mind.
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