Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist Wednesday, April 8
8:00 p.m.
Center for Natural Sciences 112
Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist
Wednesday, April 8
8:00 p.m.
Center for Natural Sciences 112
Mixing humor with heartbreak, Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist tells an intensely dramatic story about a trio of irrepressible student scientists who are guided through the emotional ups and downs of a Ph.D. training program by a tough but genial mentor.
The film was shot over three years in the molecular biology laboratory of Professor Lawrence Shapiro at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
Below is an excerpt of the film review by the Washington Post:
"Smart, tightly focused and deeply affecting, Naturally Obsessed is an inspiration and moves viewers with ease and intimacy through a world too often portrayed as boring, nerdy, and filled with indecipherable jargon. Naturally Obsessed plunges viewers into a lab at Columbia University Medical Center, where professor Larry Shapiro oversees a team of Ph.D. candidates researching AMPK, the protein that controls appetite. Their research involves long hours of meticulous and often fruitless attempts to grow perfectly formed protein crystals, which can then be observed by X-ray crystallography. What's more, Shapiro and his grad students are racing against the competition to be first to publish results in breaking the AMPK code.
"Propelled by a very cool soundtrack and equally hip protagonists guaranteed to permanently dispel that shopworn nerd stereotype, Naturally Obsessed arrives as a welcome antidote to recent years in which science has been routinely ignored, distorted, misunderstood, and otherwise dismissed."
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20090330103610147