Randy Schekman | Max Birnstiel Lecture

The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) presents Nobel laureate Randy Schekman delivering a talk in the 2015 IMP's Max Birnstiel Lecture Series. Schekman’s research interest focuses on intracellular transport systems and in his lecture he talks about the origin and function of the autophagic membrane.
Currently Randy Schekman is Professor for Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine together with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof. Furthermore, Schekman is the editor of the open access journaleLife.
The Max Birnstiel Lectures are named after the founding director of the IMP and an invitation is considered the highest award that the IMP can give to outside scientists.