2016 Friday Evening Lectures

Date:
Speaker:
June 17
E.B. Wilson History and Philosophy of Science Lecture
לErnst Haeckelיs Romantic Biologyם
Robert J. Richards, The University of Chicago
June 24
"Fishing for the Secrets of Stickleback and Human Evolution"
David M. Kingsley, Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
July 1
Glassman Lecture
"From Bacterial Adaptive Immunity to the Future of Genome Engineering"
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
July 8
Sager Lecture
"Digging for Genes that Affect Behavior"
Hopi E. Hoekstra, Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
July 15
"Bacteria as Master Regulators and Aphrodisiacs"
Nicole King, University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
July 22
Forbes Lecture
"The Remarkable Neuron: Building Long-lasting Memories from Short-Lived Elements"
Erin M. Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
July 29
Director's Lecture
לDown to the Sea in Ships (and Satellites and Robotsצ)ם
Mark Abbott, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
August 5
"Wild Things in the Age of Humans"
Sarah Zielinski, Science Writer and Editor
August 12
לHow to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction"
Beth A. Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
August 19
Porter Lecture
לTelomeres and Telomerase: From Curiosity Driven Research to Human Diseaseם
Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins University; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009)
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