Lillie Auditorium, 8:00 PM. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Suggestions for future Friday Evening Lecturers are welcome and may be sent to FEL@mbl.edu.
June 15
E.B. Wilson History and Philosophy of Science Lecture
“Pain, Opioids, and the Search for Relief: A Political History”
Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
“What do Fungi Tell us About Neurodegenerative Disease?”
Amy Gladfelter, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
June 29
“How Fish Swim...and Walk and Fly: Using Biodiversity to Understand the Neural Control of Movement”
Melina Hale, The University of Chicago; MBL
July 6
Forbes Lecture
“Neurobiology of Parenting Behavior”
Catherine Dulac, Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“The Co-Evolution of Life and Rocks: Insights from Data-Driven Discovery”
Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institution for Science; George Mason University
Porter Lecture
“The Stability and Reversal of Cell Differentiation in Development”
John Gurdon, University of Cambridge; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012)