The NIH Director's 2006-2007
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series

All Lectures are in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.

Lectures can be accessed live on the web and are also available on videotape at the NIH Library, Bldg. 10, approximately one week after the lecture date. The WALS is captioned for the web; you may request sign language or a monitor with the captions in Masur auditorium. Visit the ORS website or contact the Worksite and Enrichment Program Branch (WEPB) TTY at 301-435-1908.

January 24, 2007	Robert Griffin Professor of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. "Structure Determination of Amyloid and Membrane proteins with Solid State NMR"
January 31, 2007	Clara Franzini-Armstrong Professor Department Cell Developmental Biology; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia "Protein Interations in Calcium Release Units of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles"
February 7, 2007	No WALS
February 14, 2007	No WALS
February 21, 2007	Marc Caron James B. Duke Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Medicine and Neurobiology; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. "Novel GPCR Signaling Paradigms in Animal Models"
February 28, 2007	L. Mahadevan England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. "Mathematics, Mechanics and Motility"
March 7, 2007	Richard Flavell Sterling Professor and Chairman Department of Immunology; HHMI-Yale University of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. "Chromosome Dynamics in Cytokine Gene Expression"
March 14, 2007	Max Cooper Director, Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Pathology; University of Alabama at Birmingham "Evolution of Two Adaptive Immune Systems"
March 21, 2007	Rick Morimoto Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology; Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology; Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. "Protein Misfolding in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease"
March 28, 2007	Reinhard Jahn Director of the Department of Neurobiology and Adjunct Professor of Biology; University of Goettingen, Germany "Mechanics of Membrane Fusion in the Secretory Pathway"
April 4, 2007 The G. Burroughs Mider Lecture April 5, 2007 Speical Director’s Lecture	Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Chief, Section on Organelle Biology, NIH-NICHD "Emerging Fluorescence Technologies for the Analysis of Protein Localization and Organelle Dynamics" Craig C. Mello Nobel Prize Recipient & Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator University of Massachusetts Medical School “RNAi and Development in C. elegans”
April 11, 2007 NIH Director's Lecture	Marcus Raichle Professor of Radiology and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine “A Default Mode of Brain Function: History of an Evolving Idea”
April 18, 2007 1:00-4:00 PM	An Afternoon of Science to Honor Dr. Nancy Nossal 1:00-1:15 Personal Comments -- Dr. Maxine Singer 1:15-1:30 Personal Comments -- Dr. Herbert Tabor 1:30-2:10 Scientific Talk   -- Dr. Martin Gellert 2:15-2:55 Scientific Talk   -- Dr. Jack Griffith 3:00-4:15 WALS Lecture Charles Richardson Edward S. Wood Professor of Biological Chemistry Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. “Motors, Switches, and Contacts in a Replisome”
April 25, 2007	Martina Morris Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. “Local Acts, Global Consequences: Networks and the Spread of HIV”
May 2, 2007	No WALS
May 9, 2007	Jeffrey A. Bluestone A.W. and Mary Clausen Distinguished Professor Director University of California, San Francisco Diabetes Center “Negative Regulatory Pathways Controlling Autoimmunity”
May 16, 2007 Gordon Lecture	Robert Hoover, M.D. Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NIH NCI “Hormones and Breast Cancer: Etiology vs. Ideology”
May 23, 2007	Eric Knudsen Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif. “Mechanics of Learning and Attention in the Auditory System of the Barn Owl”
May 30, 2007	Carlos Bustamante Luis Alvarez Professor of Physics UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. “Signposts Along the Chromosomal Highway: How FtsK Finds its Target”
June 6, 2007	Michael Roukes Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. “Nanocraft v. Nanotechnology: Realizing Transformational Tools for the Life Sciences and Medicine”
June 13, 2007	No WALS
June 20, 2007	Ehud Shapiro Harry Weinrebe Professorial Chair of Computer Science and Biology Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel “Converging Technologies for Cell Lineage Analysis”
June 27, 2007	Charles Czeisler Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. “Application of Sleep Science and Circadian Biology to Clinical Medicine”

The WALS is intended for advanced students and practitioners in biomedical fields, healthcare professionals, and doctoral-level scientists who seek to update and broaden their understanding of contemporary biomedical research and the environment in which it is conducted.

The NIH/FAES is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for a maximum of 40 (i.e. a maximum of 1 credit per lecture) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The educational objective for this activity is to enable participants to identify key questions in each speaker's area of investigation and to identify approaches used to answer these questions.

This page was last updated on June 20, 2007.