Marc van Grieken, chair of the Dundee Research Interest Group (DRIG) gives powerful introduction to Randy Shekman’s public lecture: Parkinson’s disease: up, close and personal while Brendan Hawdon, DRIG secretary, leads lively Q&A session in 2022. A recording of Randy Shekman’s talk is available here.

Dr Randy Schekman is a molecular and cell biology Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He studied the enzymology of DNA replication as a graduate student with Arthur Kornberg at Stanford University. His current interest in cellular membranes developed during a postdoctoral period with S. J. Singer at the University of California, San Diego. Among his awards are the Gairdner International Award, the Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof. He has made seminal contributions to open access publishing and is the scientific director of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) - an international effort devoted to accelerating the pace of discovery and informing the path to a cure for Parkinson’s.