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The Wednesday Afternoon
Lecture
| NIH’s premier scientific talks of
campus-wide interest, usually given on its namesake day. |
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January 8, 2002
Adriano Aguzzi, "Immunobiology of Prion Diseases" |
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January 16, 2002
Carla Shatz, "Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring During
Development" |
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January 18, 2002
Hartmut Michel, "Crystallization Structures and Mechanisms of
the Membrane Protein Complexes from the Respiratory Chain" |
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January 23, 2002
James Jackson, "Race and Ethnic Disparities in Physical and Mental
Health: The National Survey of American Life" |
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January 30, 2002
David Piston, "Imaging the Dynamics of Living Systems from Single
Cells to Whole Animals" |
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February 6, 2002
Eric Nestler, "Molecular Basis of Addictive States" |
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February 20, 2002
Georgia Dunston, "Biomedical Significance of DNA Polymorphisms" |
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February 27, 2002
Aravinda Chakravarti, "Genetic Architecture of Complex Disease:
Simple or Complex?" |
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March 6, 2002
Ann Graybiel, "Neural Mechanisms of Habit Formation: Plasticity
in Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loops" |
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March 13, 2002
Steve McKnight, "Ideas on How Circadian Rhythm is Reciprocally
Linked to Metabolism" |
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March 20, 2002
Peter Cresswell, "Redox Reactions in Antigen Processing" |
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March 27, 2002
Dan Littman, "Epigenetic Regulation in T Cell Development"
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April 10, 2002
Suzanne Pfeffer, "Regulation of Receptor Trafficking by Rab GTPases" |
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April 17, 2002
Norman Pace, "Molecular Microbial Ecology: In Hot Springs and
Human Disease" |
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April 24, 2002
A. James Hudspeth, "How the Ear's Works Work: Transduction and
Amplification by Hair Cells" |
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May 8, 2002
David Mooney, "Cell Instructive Materials for Tissue Engineering
and Regeneration" |
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May 15, 2002
Irving Weissman, "Biology and Transplantation of Stem and Progenitor
Cells" |
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May 22, 2002
Gerard Evan, "Building and Demolishing a Cancer In Vivo" |
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May 24, 2002
Paul Farmer, "Infections and Inequalities: The Challenge for
Biosocial Research" |
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June 11, 2002
Tom Rapoport, "Protein Transport In and Out of the ER" |
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June 19, 2002
Robert Lefkowitz, "Arrestins: Traffic Cops of Cell Signaling" |
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September 11, 2002
Edward O. Wilson, "The Future of Life" |
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September 18, 2002
Elizabeth Komives, "Biophysics of Protein-Protein Interactions" |
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September 25, 2002
Terrence Sejnowski, "The Dynamic Brain" |
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The NIH Director's Lecture
| Speakers nominated by researchers
and scientific interest groups throughout NIH, and approved by the
NIH Director. |
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March 11, 2002
Steve Straus, "Exploring the Scientific Basis of Complementary
and Alternative Medicine" |
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April 3, 2002
Arvid Carlsson, "A Paradigm Shift in Brain Research" |
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May 1, 2002
Marianne Bronner-Fraser, "Formation and Evolution of the Neural
Crest" |
The Gordon Lecture
| Named in honor of Robert
S. Gordon, Jr., M.D., former Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S.
Public Health Service and Special Assistant to former NIH Director,
Dr. James Wyngaarden. Topics focus on clinical research and epidemiology.
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June 26, 2002
Richard Peto, "Halving Premature Death" |
The Florence Mahoney Lecture
on Aging
| Sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. The series
recognizes Mrs. Mahoney's lifetime commitment to medical research
and its benefits to people worldwide. Florence Stephenson Mahoney
is widely known for her dedicated efforts in shaping national health
science policy, particularly with respect to aging. |
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June 12, 2002
Paul Greengard, "The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission"
Eric Kandel, "Molecular Biology of Memory and Its Disorders:
Some Societal Implications |
The G. Burroughs Mider Lecture
| Established in 1968 in honor of the
first NIH director of laboratories and clinics. The lecture is presented
by an NIH intramural scientist to recognize and appreciate outstanding
contributions to biomedical research. |
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February 13, 2002
Douglas Lowry, "Papillomavirus Virus-like Particles for Vaccines
Against HPV and Other Diseases" |
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October 9, 2002
Jeffrey Trent, "Integrating Genetics, Genomics, and Biology of Malignant Melanoma" |
The DeWitt Stetten Jr., Lecture
| Established by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1982 and presented annually in honor of Dr. Stetten, the third NIGMS director. |
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October 23, 2002
Douglas Lauffenburger, "EGF receptor Circuit Operation: A Paradigm
from Quantitative Cell Biology"
Garrett Odell, "The Robustness of Evolved Genetic Networks Would
Be Astonishing Were It Not Essential"
Lucy Shapiro, "The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of
a Multicomponent Genetic Network" |
The George Khoury Lecture
| Organized by NIH scientists to honor the memory of Dr. George Khoury, who was highly regarded as a superb scientist and caring mentor of the postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory. |
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December 18, 2002
Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D., "Prometheus' Vulture and the Promise of Stem Cells" |
The Kinyoun Lecture
| Established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1979 to honor Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun, who established in 1887 the Laboratory of Hygiene on Staten Island, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health. |
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October 7, 2002
John Colloer, PH.D., "Anthrax Toxin: Structure, Activity, and New Inhibitors." |
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