Stith Speaks in Spain

Published: Dec. 1, 2016

Brad Stith, Professor of Integrative Biology, gave two invited talks in Spain in late September-early October. The first was at the at the European Calcium Society (one platform and one poster) meeting which was hosted by the University of Valladolid. Stith's talk was on the discovery of a new step in fertilization and how a lipid leads to the major event of fertilization -the release of intracellular calcium. Stith's second talk was at the University of Barcelona and concerned a lipid that binds and activates an enzyme associated with cancer (Src tyrosine kinase). This work suggests a new pathway to cancer.