Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ada Yonath, is participating today and tomorrow in Barcelona in the 1st PhD Student Symposium, entitled "The Architecture of Life", a pioneering initiative in Spain organized entirely by young researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The Israeli scientist from the Weizmann Institute, will give a scientific talk this afternoon on the complexity of the ribosome to the 150 European PhD students registered in the symposium. Yonath has recently won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is shared with Thomas A. Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, for revealing the structure of the ribosome, the molecular machinery that produces proteins from DNA.

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