Distinguished Lecture Series
The Duke University Distinguished Lecturer Series was instituted to bring inspiring, accomplished, distinguished lecturers to campus to illuminate progress and future areas of excitement in genetic and genomics. A key feature of the series is to provide a forum in which the students of the University Program in Genetics and Genomics assume a leadership role, with a faculty advisor, in identifying and inviting speakers, in designing the schedule for their visit, and in hosting and introducing the speakers. Students also attend lunches and dinners with the invited guests, who usually spend one to two days on campus also visiting with interested faculty.
Since the series inception in 2002, 22 distinguished lecturers have matriculated on campus over the six annual programs. These have included five Nobel Laureates (Eric Wieschaus, Craig Mello, Richard Axel, Mario Capecchi, and Harold Varmus), five recipients of the Lasker Award (Mario Capecchi, Carol Greider, Randy Schekman, Matt Meselson, and Harold Varmus), and numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences (Mario Capecchi, Richard Axel, Douglas Wallace, Elliot Meyerowitz, Eric Wieschaus, Eric Lander, David Botstein, Carol Greider, Randy Schekman, Judith Kimble, Joan Brugge, Susan Lindquist, Craig Mello, Bonnie Bassler, Matthew Meselson, Svante Paabo, Joanne Chory, John Doebley, and Harold Varmus).
The series is supported by the Dean's office and School of Medicine, the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, the Cancer Center, and the Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Medicine, Cell Biology, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Pathology, and Biochemistry.
The Distinguished Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
A reception follows each seminar.
For more information, call (919) 684-6629 or email.
2009-2010 Schedule
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Roger Beachy
President, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Washington University in Saint Louis
“Genetic engineering for virus resistance in plants: Using new strategies or adapting from the past?”
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4:00pm
103 Bryan Research Auditorium |
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David Altshuler
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program – Broad Institute
Harvard Medical School
“Genome sequence variation and the inherited basis of common disease”
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 4:00pm
103 Bryan Research Auditorium |
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Cynthia Kenyon
Director, Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging
University of California – San Francisco
“From worms to humans: Genes that influence the rate of aging”
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 4:00pm
103 Bryan Research Auditorium |
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Neil Shubin
Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
University of Chicago
“Finding and interpreting your inner fish”
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 4:00pm
103 Bryan Research Auditorium |
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