Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM. Lectures are free and open to the public.
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| 06/28/13 | Glassman Lecture - “Biological Time Travels: The Story of Circadian Rhythms” – Michael Rosbash, Brandeis University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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| 07/05/13 | Porter Lecture - “Biology is the Technology of this Century” – Pamela A. Silver, Harvard Medical School | ||
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| 07/12/13 | Segal Lecture - “The Development of Colour Patterns in Zebrafish: Towards an Understanding of the Genetic Basis of Morphological Variation” - Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1995 | ||
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| 07/19/13 | Grass Lecture - “Neural Plasticity: From Synapse to Perception” - Mu-ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley | ||
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| 07/26/13 | “Optogenetics: Tools from Nature for Controlling the Brain With Light” - Edward Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 08/02/13 | “Why I Love Bacteria” – Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1993 | ||
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| 08/09/13 | Lederberg Lecture – “Genes for Lifespan” – Cynthia J. Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco | ||
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| 08/16/13 | Sager Lecture – “Making Your Heart Young Again” – Richard T. Lee, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Stem Cell Institute | ||
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Speakers for the Friday Evening Lecture Series are selected by a committee composed of: Marlene Belfort, University at Albany – SUNY; Joan Ruderman, MBL; Paul De Weer, University of Pennsylvania; Gerald Fischbach, Simons Foundation Autism Project; Joshua Hamilton, MBL; Richard Harland, UC Berkeley; Tim Mitchison, Harvard University; Mitchell Sogin, MBL; and Clare Waterman, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Suggestions for future Friday Evening Lecturers are welcome and may be sent to FEL@mbl.edu
