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4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31
Conversation / Q&A, followed by post-talk reception
Campus Center Ballroom
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize-winning structural biologist, is the author of an acclaimed new book for mainstream readers, Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality (2025).
Bestselling author Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods) called it, "Utterly fascinating," and said, "Venki Ramakrishnan's ability to take the most challenging subjects and make them clear, enthralling and packed with insights fills me with awe." LitHub called him "a knockout writer."
Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the nature of ribosomes, the molecular machines found in all living cells that synthesize proteins by translating the genetic information carried by messenger RNA.