Distinguished Lecturer 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, many distinguished individuals have shared their research and experience with the Duke community. These scholars have included six Nobel Laureates (Eric Wieschaus, Craig Mello, Richard Axel, Mario Capecchi, Carol Greider, and Harold Varmus)(four of whom received the Nobel prize after visiting Duke or being invited to visit Duke), 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, Harold Varmus, Pat Brown, Jeff Gordon, Barbara Meyer, Cynthia Kenyon, Roger Beachy, Eric Olson, and Neil Shubin).
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 Lecturer Series is free and open to the public. A reception follows each seminar.
2012-2013 Schedule
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Joseph Gall
Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University
"Transcription during the lampbrush chromosome stage of amphibian oogenesis"
November 15th, 2012, 4:00PM
103 Bryan Research Auditorium
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Robert Weinberg
Member, Whitehead Institute
Professor of Biology, MIT
"The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Cancer Stem Cells, and Malignant Progression"
February 6th, 2013, 4:30PM
LSRC Love Auditorium (Room B101) |
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Marc
Vidal
Director, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
"Interactome Networks and
Human Disease"
March 7th, 2013, 4:30PM
LSRC Love Auditorium (Room B101)
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Leslie Vosshall
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Food and Sex: The Neurogenetics of Innate Behavior"
May 2nd, 2013, 4:00PM
103 Bryan Research Auditorium
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