02/11/2010 - 6:45pm
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
What good is long life without youthful vigor? When the goddess Eos fell in love with Tithonus, a mere mortal, Zeus granted him the imperfect gift of immortality: Tithonus lived forever but did not stop aging, thus condemning his existence to one of eternal decrepitude. In Nature, organisms exist that can be said to remain perennially youthful, and consequently die young as late in life as possible. Learn what fundamental lessons such an organism is teaching us about our own biology.
Cancelled because of weather.
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