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Friday lectures under way

This year’s program, which began September 7, brings 30 speakers from
some of the world’s top universities and institutions to Rockefeller
for the university’s weekly lecture series.

October 5 
Allan C. Spradling
director, department of embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
William H. Stein Memorial Lecture


October 12
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
architect, Microsoft Live Labs


October 19
Michael Snyder
chair of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Yale University
Postdoc Invited Lecture


October 26
Timothy A. Ryan
professor of biochemistry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
M.D.-Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture


November 2
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
principal investigator, cell biology and metabolism branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health


November 9
Consuelo de Moraes
associate professor of entomology, Pennsylvania State University


November 16
Nathaniel Heintz
James and Marilyn Simons Professor and head, Laboratory of Molecular
Biology, The Rockefeller University
M.D.-Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture


November 30
Ronald Breaker
associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, Yale University


December 7
Catherine Dulac
Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University


December 14
Jennifer A. Doudna
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of California, Berkeley


January 4
James Ferrell
professor of biochemistry and chair, chemical and systems biology, Stanford University
Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture


January 11
Andrew Murray
professor of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University
Philip Levine Memorial Lecture


January 18
Kevan Shokat
professor and vice chairman of cellular and molecular pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco; assistant professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley


January 25
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
professor and chair, biology division, California Institute of Technology


February 1
David Kingsley
professor of developmental biology, Stanford University
Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture


February 8
L. David Mech
adjunct professor of fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology, University of Minnesota; senior scientist, biological resources, U.S. Geological Survey


February 15 
Frederick Alt
professor of genetics and pediatrics and scientific director, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard University
Ernst A.H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture


February 22
Roger Kornberg
professor, department of structural biology, Stanford University
Joshua A. Lederberg Distinguished Lecture


February 29
Eric Gouaux
principal investigator, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University


March 7
C. David Allis
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture


March 14
Stanislas Leibler
Gladys T. Perkin Professor and head, Laboratory of Living Matter, The
Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture


March 21
Joseph Takahashi
Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor, department of neurobiology and physiology, Northwestern University


March 28
Louis Ptacek
John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco


April 4
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences


April 11  
Patricia Kuhl
professor, department of speech and hearing sciences and codirector, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington
Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture


April 18
Edvard and May-Britt Moser
codirectors, Kavli Institute for System Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology


April 25
Boris Shraiman
professor of theoretical physics, University of California, Santa Barbara


May 2
Evolution Symposium


May 9
Stephen O’Rahilly
professor and head, department of clinical biochemistry and medicine,
University of Cambridge


May 16
Science Symposium in honor of Mary Jeanne Kreek


May 23
James Wells
professor, departments of cellular and molecular pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
Cancer Biology Lecture


May 30
David Drubin
head of cell and developmental biology, University of California, Berkeley


June 6
Gary Ruvkun
professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital