The 2001-2002 Wednesday Afternoon Lectures

The National Institutes of Health
Office of the Director

All Lectures are in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, at 3:00 p.m.on Wednesdays (exceptions are marked with an * below). The lectures may be accessed from personal computers on the web, and are available on videotape at the NIH Library, Bldg. 10, approximately one week after the lecture date. Following the lectures are informal receptions featuring poster displays by winners of the Fellows Awards for Research Excellence (FARE). For further information or special accommodations, please contact: Ms. Hilda Madine.

Hearing Impaired? The WALS are now captioned for the Web; A monitor with the captions is available at the lecture in Masur auditorium. For further information or to arrange interpretation for other meetings and lectures, check the ORS website to arrange interpretation or contact the Worksite and Enrichment Program Branch (WEPB) TTY at 301-435-1908. For other reasonable accommodations for the WALS, call: Hilda Madine (301 594-5595).

Date

Lecture

Speaker

Professional Title

Institution

Lecture Title
9/12/2001 WALS

A. James Hudspeth

Rescheduled
to 4/24/2002

 

 M.D., Ph. D. Investigator, HHMI;
F.M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience		 Rockefeller University How The Ear's Works Work: Transduction and Amplification by Hair Cells
9/19/2001 WALS

Chris Miller

POSTPONED

 Ph.D, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, and Investigator, HHMI
 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Ion Channel Proteins: Function to Structure and Back Again
9/26/2001 WALS Richard Young Ph.D. Professor of Biology, and Member, Whitehead Institute
 MIT Regulation of Genome Expression in Living Eukaryotic Cells

10/3/2001
NO LECTURE
--NIH RESEARCH FESTIVAL--
10/10/2001 Pittman Lecture

Helga Kolb

Rescheduled--see May 29, 2002

 Ph.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
 Univ. of Utah The organization of the Vertebrate Retina
10/17/2001 Stetten C. David Allis Ph.D. Byrd Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Professor of Microbiology and Associate Member, Markey Center for Cell Signaling		 Univ. of Va. Sch. of Med. Tranlating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails
10/24/2001 WALS Ben Carson Dir.Div..of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins; Professor of Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Oncology and Pediatrics. Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center. Johns Hopkins Aspects of Peadtric Epilepsy Surgery
10/31/2001 WALS Janet Thornton Professor
University College London / Birkbeck College		 Univ. College, London
Protein Folds, Functions, and Evolution
11/7/2001 Astute Clinician Brian Druker

 M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncol,ogy; Director, Oregon Health Sciences, University Cancer Institute Leukemia Center Oregon Health Sciences Univ. STI571: A Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor for the Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Validating the Promise of Molecularly Targeted Therapy
11/14/2001
Thanksgiving Break
No Lecture
11/21/2001
Thanksgiving Break
No Lecture
11/27/2001 Shannon Lecture Rita Colwell * Ph.D. Director, National Science Foundation
 National Science Foundation Crossing Borders: Science, the Public, and New Policies
11/28/2001 Khoury David M. Livingston M.D, Deputy Director, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Chief, Charles A Dana Div. of Human Cancer Genetics & Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine Harvard Medical School Molecular and Biological Analyses of BRCA1 Function
12/5/2001 WALS Nick Cozzarelli Ph. D, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
 Berkeley Mechanisms of DNA Unlinking and Chromosome Segregation
12/12/2001 WALS Wilma K. Olson Mary I. Bunting Prof. & Director, Center for Molecular Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry Rutgers DNA Mechanics and Gene Regulation
12/19/2001 Dyer Lecture Rafi Ahmed Ph.D. Director, Emory Vaccine Center, Georgia Research Alliance; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medincine Emory Immunological Memory: Lessons for Vaccine Development
12/26/2001-1/2/2002
WINTER BREAK
No Lecture

NOTE: New Time & Date!
1/8/2002
2:00 p.m.

 WALS Adriano Aguzzi M.D., Professor and Director, Institute of Neuropathology; Associate Dean for Research Universitäts Spital Zürich Immunobiology of Prion Diseases
1/16/2002 WALS Carla Shatz Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor and Chair, Dept of Neurobiology Harvard Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring During Development
1/18/2001 WALS Hartmut Michel Director, Dept. of Molecular Membrane Biology; Director, Max-Planck Institut fuer Biophysik, Frankfurt
 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biophysik Crystallization, Structures and Mechanisms of the Membrane Protein Complexes from the Respiratory Chain
1/23/2002 WALS James Jackson Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies; Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology; Director, African American Mental Health Research Centerof the Department of Psychology. Univ. of Michigan Race and Ethnic Disparities in Physical and Mental Health: the National Survey of American Life
1/30/2002 WALS David Piston Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the W. M. Keck Free Electron Laser Center Vanderbilt University Imaging the Dynamics of Living Systems from Single Cells to Whole Animals

2/5/2001
Postponed to 6/11/02

 WALS Tom Rapoport Professor of Cell Biology & Investigator, HHMI Harvard
2/6/2002 WALS Eric Nestler M.D. PhD., Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Professor, and Chirman, Dept of Psychiatry UT Southwestern Medical Center Molecular Basis of Addictive States
2/13/2002 Mider Lecture Douglas Lowy Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology NCI/CCR Papillomavirus virus-like particles: for vaccines against HPV and other diseases
2/20/2002 WALS Georgia Dunston Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology. College of Medicine and Acting Director, National Human Genome Center at Howard University Howard University Biomedical Significance of DNA Polymorphisms
2/27/2002 WALS Aravinda Chakravarti Ph.D., Henry J Knott Professor & Director, McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine Genetic Architecture of Complex Disease: Simple or Complex?
3/6/2002 WALS Ann Graybiel PhD;Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT Neural Mechanisms of Habit Formation: Plasticity in Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loops
3/11/2002 Director’s Lecture Steve Straus M.D., Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NIH Exploring the Scientific Basis of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
3/13/2002 WALS Steve McKnight Ph.D., Chairman, Biochemistry Dept; Sam G Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair, and Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Research UT Southwestern Medical Center Ideas on How Circadian Rhythm is Reciprocally Linked to Metabolism
3/20/2002 WALS Peter Cresswell Ph.D., HHMI, Professor, Deptartment of Immunobiology

 Yale Univ. School of Medicine Redox rections in antigen processing
3/27/2002 WALS Dan Littman M.D., Ph.D.Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Depts. of Pathology and Microbiology, New York Univ. School of Med. Investigator, HHMI NYU Medical Center Epigenetic Regulation in T Cell Development
4/3/2002 Director’s Lecture Arvid Carlsson M.D. Nobel Laureate, 2000; Carlsson Research Inc. Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology University of Goteborg
 A Paradigm Shift in Brain Research
4/10/2002 WALS Suzanne Pfeffer Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford University School of Medicine REgulation of Receptor Trafficking by Rab GTPases
4/17/2002 WALS Norman R. Pace Ph.D. Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Univ. of Colorado Molecular Microbial Ecology: In Hot Springs and Human Disease
4/24/2002 WALS A. James Hudspeth M.D., Ph. D. Investigator, HHMI;
F.M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience		 Rockefeller University How The Ear's Works Work: Transduction and Amplification by Hair Cells
5/1/2002 Director’s Lecture Marianne Bronner-Fraser Ph.D. Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology Calif. Inst. Tech Formation and Evolution of the Neural Crest
5/8/2002 WALS David Mooney Ph.D. Professor, Biologic and Materials Sciences, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan
Cell Instructive Materials for Tissue Engineering and Regeneration
5/15/2002 WALS Irving Weissman M.D. Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology
 Stanford University School of Medicine Biology and Transplantation of Stem and Progenitor Cells
5/22/2002 WALS Gerard Evan Ph.D.
Gerson and Barbara Bakar Professor of Cancer Biology,		 UCSF Life and Death of a Cancer Cell
Special Friday Lecture; Note Time Change
5/24/2002
 2:00 p.m.		 WALS Paul Farmer MD, PhD., Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School Infections and Inequalities: The challenge for biosocial research
5/29/2002 Pittman Lecture

Helga Kolb

 Ph.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
 Univ. of Utah The organization of the Vertebrate Retina
6/5/2002 GM CANCER RESEARCH LAUREATES LECTURES To Be Announced
 TBA
 TBA
6/11/2001 WALS Tom Rapoport Ph. D. Professor of Cell Biology & Investigator, HHMI Harvard Protein Transport In and Out of the ER
6/12/2002 Florence Mahoney Lect 1)Eric Kandel and
2)Paul Greengard

Nobel Laureates, 2000

1)M.D., Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
2)Ph.D, Vincent Astor Professor

 1)Columbia University
2)The Rockefeller University

1) Molecular Biology of Memory and Its Disorders: Some Societal Implications
2) The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission
6/19/2002 WALS Robert Lefkowitz M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University, and HHMI Duke University Medical Center Arrestins: Traffic Cops of Cell Signalling
6/26/2002 Gordon Lecture Richard Peto FRS, Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology & Co-Director, Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) & Epidemiological Studies Unit Oxford Halving Premature Death

 
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