The NIH Director's
Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Fall, 1997

The names of the NIH interest groups and institutes sponsoring each talk are listed in parentheses following the speaker's name and institution. Except where noted (*) lectures are at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays in Masur Auditorium of Bldg. 10. For sign language and reasonable accommodation, or for further information, contact Hilda Madine, phone 301-594-5595. Questions and comments on this web page should be addressed to Janet Yee.

Cell death and the regulation of homeostasis

Sept. 17
Lee E. Limbird, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Center for Molecular Neuroscience
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
NIH Pittman Lecture (Co-hosted by NIDDK and the Women Scientist Advisors Group)

Alpha2-adrenergic receptors achieve signaling specificity via coupling to distinct effectors and targeting to discrete surface domains


Sept. 24
Jean W. MacCluer, Ph.D.
Population Genetics Laboratory, Genetics Department
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
University of Texas, San Antonio
Gordon Lecture (Co-hosted by the Clinical Research and Epidemiology Interest Groups)

From epidemiology to gene discovery: Finding genes for complex diseases

Oct. 1
Peter Walter, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysis, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
(Hosted by the Cell Biology Interest Group)

Intracellular signaling from the endoplasmic reticulum to the nucleus


Oct. 8
No Lecture: NIH Intramural Research Festival


Oct. 15
Don C. Wiley, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University, Boston, MA
(Co-hosted by the Structural Biology and Immunology Interest Groups)

Structure/function studies in MHC/Antigen recognition and in viral entry mechanisms


Oct. 22
Jacqueline K. Barton, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Stetten Lecture

DNA-mediated electron transfer: chemistry at a distance


Oct. 29
Jonathan R. Beckwith, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
(Co-hosted by Lambda Lunch and the Molecular Biology Interest Group)

Making, breaking, and shuffling protein disulfide bonds in vivo


Nov. 3: SPECIAL MONDAY LECTURE
Peter B. Dervan, Ph.D.
Bren Professor of Chemistry
Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
(Co-hosted by the Chemistry Special Interest Group, NIGMS, and the American Chemical Society)

Molecular design for DNA recognition: an approach toward gene-specific transcription


Nov. 5
James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Graduate Student Affairs
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(Hosted by the AIDS Interest Group)

The role of host adhesion molecules in the biology of retroviruses


Nov. 12
James Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Institute of Human Gene Therapy
Cardiovascular Medicine/Medical Genetics
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(Hosted by the Clinical Research Interest Group)

Cystic fibrosis: Pathogenesis and treatment


Nov. 19
Judah M. Folkman, M.D.
Children's Hospital of Boston
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
NIH Director's Lecture (Hosted by the Clinical Research Interest Group)

New directions in angiogenesis research


Nov. 26
Kai Simons,
Cell Biology Programme, EMBL, University of Heidelberg
(Hosted by FIC, and the Cell Biology Research Interest Group)

Sphingolipid-cholesterol rafts in membrane trafficking and signaling


Dec. 3
Wolf Singer, Ph.D.
Department of Neurophysiology/Psychophysics
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
(Hosted by the Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group)

The putative role of response synchronization in cortical processing


Dec. 10
David Baltimore, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Ivan R. Cottrell Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Khoury Lecture (Co-hosted by the Virology and AIDS Interest Groups)

Cell Life and Cell Death

Dec. 17
Michael Geoffrey Rosenfeld, M.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Eukaryotic Regulatory Biology Program, Department of Neuroscience
University of California, San Diego
(Co-hosted by the Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, and Transcription Factors Interest Groups)

Mechanisms of transcriptional control of neural and endocrine development

Dec. 24
No Lecture: Hanukkah/Christmas


Dec. 31
No Lecture: New Year's Eve