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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LECTURE SERIES 2018–2019

September 2018 October 2018SEPTEMBER 5, 2018Marshall Nirenberg Lecture David R. Liu Base editing: chemistry on a target nucleotide in the genome of living cells

JANUARY 23, 2019Je�rey A. Hubbell Molecular engineering of immunotherapeutics: from regulation in autoimmunity to immunity to cancer

JANUARY 30, 2019Gerald M. RubinWhat the fly brain can teach us about the neural mechanisms of complex behaviors

FEBRUARY 27, 2019NIH Director’s Lecture

Sandra L. WolinAutoantigens and autoimmunity: a bedside to bench and back again story

FEBRUARY 20, 2019Alain Fischer Pediatric immune diseases, all genetics?

JANUARY 9, 2019 Lynne E. MaquatNonsense-mediated mRNA decay in health and disease

JANUARY 16, 2019Alondra Nelson The social life of DNA

OCTOBER 10, 2018DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture

Alejandro Sánchez AlvaradoUnderstanding the source of regenerative ability in animals

OCTOBER 17, 2018NIGMS Nobel Laureate Lecture Michael W. Young Genes controlling sleep and circadian rhythms

DECEMBER 5, 2018John CollingeCan you catch dementia? Insights and solutions from prion disease

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Cory Abate-Shen Of mice and men: what we can learn about human cancer by studying mouse models

OCTOBER 31, 2018 Sarah Teichmann Travelling through tissues one cell at a time: the Human Cell Atlas and barrier tissues

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December 2018

January 2019FEBRUARY 6, 2019Rolla E. Dyer Lecture

Elodie GhedinMicrobial networking (…it’s like Tinder for bugs)

FEBRUARY 13, 2019NIH Director’s Lecture

Judith Campisi Cancer and aging: rival demons?

February 2019

March 2019MARCH 6, 2019Sharon Walsh The opioid crisis: how can we bridge the vast gap between science and practice? 

MAY 1, 2019Squire Booker The biosynthesis of lipoic acid: a saga of death, destruction, and rebirth

MAY 22, 2019Sekar Kathiresan Genes, lifestyle, and risk for heart attack

MAY 8, 2019George Khoury Lecture

Julie Pfei�er Getting by with a little help from their friends: how bacteria aid virus infection

MAY 29, 2019Brigitte Kie�er Opiates on the brain

MARCH 27, 2019Lauren O. BakaletzHow to bust up a bacterial biofilm

APRIL 3, 2019G. Burroughs Mider lecture

Julie Segre Microbiome: friend and foe

APRIL 10, 2019Shizuo AkiraRNA degradation controls inflammation

APRIL 24, 2019Eric Betzig The secret lives of cells

MAY 15, 2019Margaret Pittman Lecture

Lucile Adams-Campbell A community approach to breast cancer prevention: addressing health disparities

April 2019 May 2019

NOVEMBER 7, 2018Astute Clinician Lecture William Gahl What makes America great

NOVEMBER 28, 2018Florence Mahoney Lecture

Norman E. SharplessSenescence: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse

NOVEMBER 13, 2018Special Tuesday Lecture Gökhan Hotamisligil Lecture Title TBD

NOVEMBER 14, 2018William Paul Lecture Mark M. Davis Standing on the shoulders of mice: adventuresin human immunology

November 2018

JUNE 5, 2019Jodi Nunnari Mitochondrial behavior

June 2019

JUNE 12, 2019Anne O'Garra Lecture Title TBD

JUNE 19, 2019Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture

Gordon Lecturer 2019 speaker to be named in Fall 2018

Speaker TBA