Nobel Laureate Roger Kornberg (Chemistry 2006) invites your group of three Menlo Upper School students to visit with him at his Stanford lab. Students will have an opportunity to tour the Linear Accelerator, view a presentation of the lab's work, get an interactive viewing of molecular structures and talk with graduate students and post-doc fellows.

Roger Kornberg received the Nobel prize for his work on how the information stored in the genes is copied, and then transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Understanding the transcription process is vital for coaxing stem cells into different kinds of specific cells -- the dream that, one day, scientists will be able to grow transplant tissue in a lab. His work continues the work of his father who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1959.