Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.
- President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Member, Institute of Medicine
Reversing Childhood Obesity: Helping All Children Lead Healthier Lives
February 9, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Titia de Lange, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Prize Winner
- Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics
- American Cancer Society Research Professor
- Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York
How telomeres solve the end-protection problem
February 23, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Trudi Schupbach, Ph.D.
- Professor of Molecular Biology Princeton University
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Control of EGF Receptor Activity and Axis Establishment in Drosophila Oogenesis
March 1, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Eric Wieschaus, Ph.D.
- Squibb Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
- Princeton University
- Nobel Prize, Physiology 1995
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Mechanics of Cell Shape Change in Drosophila
March 8, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Gail Martin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Anatomy, UCSF
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- Honorary Doctorate of Science, University College London, 2011
FGF signaling in vertebrate organogenesis: how Sprouty genes help to get it right
April 12, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Jim Wells, Ph.D.
- Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- University California San Francisco
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Engineering Cells to Death
April 26, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Jeff Wrana, Ph.D.
- Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology and Cancer
- Samuel Luenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Professor, Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
Intersection of Polarity and Morphogen Pathways in Development and Cancer
May 3, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
R. Alta Charo, J.D.
- Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics University of Wisconsin Law School
- Member, Institute of Medicine
Faster, Safer, Better: Thoughts on Pharmaceutical Development
September 20, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fear from Mice to Men: Implications for PTSD and other Disorders of Fear and Anxiety
September 27, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Joe Palca, Ph.D.
- Science Correspondent for NPR
News and Science: A Marriage of Convenience
October 25, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.
- Institute Professor
- Faculty Member of the David H. Koch Institute and Department of Biology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1993
- National Medal of Science 2004
The biology of non-coding RNAs
November 15, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.
- Newton Professor of Neuroscience
- Director, Simons Center for the Social Brain Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Member, Institute of Medicine
Mechanisms and Emerging Therapeutics for Autism Spectrum Disorders
November 29, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D.
- J. Lowell Orbison Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Director of the Center for RNA Biology University of Rochester
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Tales from the Cellular Underworld: mRNA Decay and Disease
December 6, 2012
Watch Lecture (Requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.
- Avram Goldstein Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
- Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Stanford University School of Medicine
- Member, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Physiology and Pathology of Neurotransmitter Release
December 13, 2012