The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Spring, 1997

Except where noted (*) lectures are at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays in Masur Auditorium of Bldg. 10. For sign language and reasonable accommodation, or for further information, contact Hilda Madine, phone 301-594-5595. Comments on the web pages should go to Janet Yee.

April 2: Osamu Hayaishi, M.D., Ph.D.
April 7: Jacques Pouyssegur, Ph.D.
April 9: Judith Kimble, Ph.D.
April 10: Harald von Boehmer, M.D., Ph.D.
April 16: Ronald A. Milligan, Ph.D.
April 23: Francis M. Brodsky, D.Phil.
April 30: Tom Maniatis, Ph.D.
May 7: Corey S. Goodman, Ph.D.
May 14: David M. Livingston, M.D.
May 21: Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D.
May 28: Fotis C. Kafatos, Ph.D.
June 4: Marilyn G. Farquhar, Ph.D.
June11: GM Cancer Research Foundation Annual Conference
June 18: Peter N. Goodfellow, D.Phil., F.R.S.

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APRIL 2
OSAMU HAYAISHI, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Osaka Bioscience Institute, Japan, and
Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
The Tenth Paul Ehrlich Lecture
Secrets of Sleep: Molecular Mechanisms of Sleep-Wake Regulation
(Hosted by the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, Inc.)


SPECIAL MONDAY LECTURE*

APRIL 7
JACQUES POUYSSEGUR, Ph.D.
CNRS Research Director, Universite de Nice
Nice, France
Winner, Lounsbery Award of the National Academy of Sciences
Growth Factor Signaling via MAP Kinases:
Specificity and Spatiotemporal Action
(Hosted by the NIDR, LMB-NCI, NICHD, and the Cell Biology and Cytokine Interest Groups)


APRIL 9
JUDITH KIMBLE, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, and
the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Department
of Biochemistry, Investigator, HHMI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin
Regulation of Cell Fate in the Germ Line of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
(Hosted by the Developmental Biology Interest Group)


*SPECIAL THURSDAY LECTURE

APRIL 10
HARALD von BOEHMER, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
Faculte de Medecine Necker
Descartes University, and
Director, Unite INSERM 373
Paris, France
Lymphocyte Survival
(The NIH Director's R.E. Dyer Lecture)


APRIL 16
RONALD A. MILLIGAN, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
How Myosin and Kinesin Motors Move
(Hosted by the Structural Biology and Motility Interest Groups)


APRIL 23
FRANCES M. BRODSKY, D.Phil.
Professor, Department of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and
the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine, University of California
San Francisco
Endocytosis: Mechanism and Subversion
(Hosted by the NIH Fellows)


APRIL 30
TOM MANIATIS, Ph.D.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Combinatorial Mechanisms for Specific Gene
Activation in Response to Extracellular Signals
(Hosted by the Transcription Factors Interest Group)


MAY 7
COREY S. GOODMAN, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Neurobiology Division
Investigator, HHMI, Department of Molecular
and Cell Biology, University of California
Berkeley, California
Wiring Up the Brain: Genetic Analysis of the Mechanisms Controlling the Generation of Neural Specificity
(Hosted by the Neurobiology Interest Group)


MAY 14
DAVID M. LIVINGSTON, M.D.
Chairman, Executive Committee for Research,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Chief, Division of Neoplastic Disease Mechanisms
and Emil Frei Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Functional Analysis of the BRCA1 Gene Product
(Hosted by the Cell Cycle Interest Group)


MAY 21
MINA J. BISSELL, Ph.D.
Director, Life Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California
The Central Role of ECM and Integrins in the Regulation of Tissue-Specific Genes, Apoptosis, and Cancer in the Mammary Gland
(Hosted by the Apoptosis and Cell Biology Interest Groups)


MAY 28
FOTIS C. KAFATOS, Ph.D.
Director-General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Crete
Greece
The New Genetics in the Study of Organisms Important to Humans: A Case Study of Mosquito- Malaria-Human Interactions
The Fogarty International Lecture
(Hosted by the Fogarty International Center)


JUNE 4
MARILYN G. FARQUHAR, Ph.D.
3 p.m. Professor of Pathology and Coordinator, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
Control of Intracellular Membrane Traffic:
Involvement of G Proteins and GAIP, an RGS Protein
(The NIH Director's Margaret Pittman Lecture)


* JUNE 11, 2-4 p.m
GENERAL MOTORS CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE


Introduction by Samuel A. Wells, Jr., M.D.
President, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
Laureates' Lectures by Winners of General Motors Prizes for Cancer Research:

Charles F. Kettering Prize: Herman D. Suit, Harvard
Charles S. Mott Prize: Judah Folkman, Harvard
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize: Paul Nurse, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

(Hosted by the Office of the Director, NIH)


JUNE 18
PETER N. GOODFELLOW, D.Phil., F.R.S.
Senior Vice President
Biopharmaceutical Research and Development
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Essex, England
From Sex to Drugs
(Hosted by the Genetics Interest Group)
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