Friday Lecture Series begins

October 10 
Richard Axel, M.D.
professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, of neuroscience and of pathology and cell biology, Columbia University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Joshua Lederberg Memorial Lecture

October 24  
A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.
F.M. Kirby Professor and head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
M.D.-Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture

November 7
Lisa Randall, Ph.D.
professor of physics, Harvard University

November 14
B.J. Casey, Ph.D.
director, Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, and professor of developmental psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
M.D.-Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture

November 21
David E. Shaw, Ph.D.
chief scientist, D.E. Shaw Research
Student Sponsored Lecture

December 5 
Howard Berg, Ph.D.
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University

December 12 
Steve L. McKnight, Ph.D.
distinguished chair in basic biomedical research and Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

January 23   
Pascale Cossart, Ph.D.
head, bacteria-cell interactions unit, director, department of cell biology and infection, and professor, Pasteur Institute; international research scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ernst A.H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture

January 30   
Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.
member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 20   
Christopher T. Walsh, Ph.D.
Hamilton Kuhn Professor, department of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

February 27   
Helen Hobbs, M.D.
Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair for the Study of Human Growth and Development and professor of internal medicine and clinical genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture

March 6   
Tom W. Muir, Ph.D.
Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and head, Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry, Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture

March 13   
Shai Shaham, Ph.D.
associate professor and head, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Rockefeller University
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture

March 20   
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
professor of neurobiology and anatomy, University of Utah; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

March 27   
Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D.
head, neuroscience department, and director, unit of genetics and physiology of hearing, Pasteur Institute

April 3   
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

April 17   
Harvey F. Lodish, Ph.D.
member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; professor of biology and bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Detlev Bronk Alumni Lecture

April 24   
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D.
professor of genetics and pediatrics, Yale University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture

May 1   
Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D.
professor and director of graduate studies, department of molecular biology, Princeton University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

May 8   
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

May 15   
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D.
Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine
Cancer Biology Lecture

May 29   
Gregory Hannon, Ph.D.
professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture

June 5   
Gerald Crabtree, M.D.
professor of pathology and of developmental biology, member, Bio-X program, and member, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute