BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:367@usrotary.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260702T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260702T083000 DTSTAMP:20260621T164158Z URL:https://usrotary.org/events/program-mary-brunkow-july-2-2026/ SUMMARY:Program: Nobel Prize Winner Mary Brunkow\, Institute for Systems B iology\, July 2\, 2026 DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the \;University Sunrise Rotary Club \;for a pro gram featuring Nobel Prize recipient Mary Brunkow.\n\n\n\nThe \;progra m will be presented in-person and on Zoom on Thursday morning. \; The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. \; \ ;No registration is required\, and the program is free.\n\n\n\n\nThe in-pe rson meeting will be at the North Seattle Church (2150 N 122nd St\, Seattl e). \; Doors open at 7:00 a.m. and the program begins at 7:30 a.m.\n\n \n\n\n\nClick here to join the meeting on Zoom.  The line will open short ly after 7:00 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Brunkow is a D istinguished Investigator at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Se attle. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology o r Medicine. Brunkow was recognized\, along with Drs. Fred Ramsdell and Shi mon Sakaguchi\, for groundbreaking discoveries illuminating the mechanisms of peripheral immune tolerance\, including the identification of the FOXP 3 gene and regulatory T cells’ central role in preventing autoimmune dis ease.\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Portland\, OR\, Brunkow attended St. Mary ’s Academy before earning a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Un iversity of Washington. She went on to complete MS and PhD degrees in Mole cular Biology at Princeton. She conducted post-doctoral research at the S amuel Lunenfeld Research Institute (now the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research I nstitute) in Toronto.\n\n\n\nIn 1994\, Brunkow joined Darwin Molecular Cor poration\, a pioneering gene-discovery biotechnology start-up in Bothell\, WA\, co-founded by ISB’s founding president\, Dr. Leroy Hood. At Darwin \, she worked alongside mentors and collaborators\, including Drs. David G alas\, Fred Ramsdell\, Steve Ziegler\, and John Mulligan. \n\n\n\nBetween 2003 and 2005\, she combined consulting and contract research roles with c ompleting a certificate in technical and scientific writing\, while also f ocusing on her family life. In 2006\, she joined ISB as a Science Writer i n Dr. Alan Aderem’s laboratory\, helping communicate complex systems bio logy findings to broader audiences. She later served as Associate Director of Program Management at Trubion Pharmaceuticals (2008-2009) before retur ning to ISB in 2009 as Program Manager\, Genetics\, a position she still h olds today.\n\n\n\nAt ISB\, Brunkow has been instrumental in coordinating and managing complex\, multi-disciplinary projects that integrate human ge netics\, whole-genome sequencing\, and computational biology to uncover mo lecular mechanisms underlying diseases such as Huntington’s disease\, Al zheimer’s disease\, and bipolar disorder. Her work exemplifies ISB’s c ollaborative approach – connecting data\, disciplines\, and people to ac celerate biomedical discovery and ensure that science serves the greater p ublic good.\n CATEGORIES:Speakers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR