U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- The National Institutes of Health

All Lectures are in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, at 3:00 p.m.on Wednesdays (exceptions are marked with an *).
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The lectures may be accessed from personal computers on the web, and are available on videotape at the NIH Library, Bldg. 10, approximately one week after the lecture date.
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Following the lectures are informal receptions featuring poster displays by winners of the Fellows Awards for Research Excellence (FARE).

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Hearing Impaired? The WALS are captioned for the Web or you may request sign language or a monitor with the captions in Masur auditorium. Check the ORS website to arrange interpretation or contact the Worksite and Enrichment Program Branch (WEPB) TTY at 301-435-1908.

For other reasonable accommodations or information, please call: Hilda Madine (301 594-5595).
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The target audience for the WALS is: advanced students and practitioners in biomedical fields; healthcare professionals; and doctoral-level scientists who seek to update and broaden their understanding of contemporary biomedical resesarch and the environment in which it is conducted.

The NIH/FAES is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for a maximum of 40 (i.e. a maximum of 1 credut per lecture) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The educational objective for this activity is to enable participants to identify key questions in each speaker's area of investigation and to identify approaches used to answer these questions.
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The NIH Director's 2005-2006

Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
9/7/2005

Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alternative Splicing in Health and Disease    

9/14/2005
The NIH Director's Lecture 		Solomon Snyder, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry, and Director, Dept. of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Messenger Molecules of Life and Death
9/21/2005
The NIH Director's Cultural Lecture 		Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D., University Professor and Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University
How Societies Reach New Shared Moral Understandings
9/28/2005 Martin Heisenberg , Ph.D., Professor, Theodor Boveri Institute for Biosciences, and Chair, Genetics and Neurobiology, Univ. Würzburg, Germany
Mapping Memory Traces in the Fly Brain
10/5/2005 Margarita Alegria, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Director, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Hospital
Matching Services to Needs:  The Importance of Health Services Research for Reducing Disparities
10/12/2005
The G. Burroughs Mider Lecture 		Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH
Complex Genetics in the Human Brain: Lessons from COMT
10/19/2005 RESEARCH FESTIVAL, No WALS

10/26/2005
The DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Lecture

Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berekely and HHMI
Chemistry in Living Systems:  New Tools for Probing the Glycome
11/2/2005
The Astute Clinician Lecture 		Paul M Ridker, M.D., M.P.H. Harvard Medical School
Inflammation, CRP, and Cardiovascular Risk: Is it time to Change the Framiningham Risk Score?
11/9/2005 Arthur Johnson, The E. L. Wehner-Welch Foundation Chair in Chemistry, Texas A&M
Maintenance of Membrane Integrity during Protein Trafficking at the ER Membrane
Special Tuesday Lecture*
11/15/2005
The NIH Director's
Lecture
 Stephen E. Straus, M.D. , Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID
From the Bedside to the Bench and Back Again: To Understand, Treat, and Prevent HSV and VZV Infections
11/16/2005
The Khoury Lecture 		Jim Alwine, Professor, Dept. of Cancer Biology and Chair, Cell Growth and Cancer Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
How DNA Viruses Deal with Stress
11/23/2005 Thanksgiving break, No WALS
11/30/2005 Tania Baker, Whitehead Professor of Biology and HHMI Investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HHMI Investigator, MIT
Remodeling Proteins and the Proteome by AAA+ ATPase Machines
12/7/2005 Philippa Marrack, Professor, National Jewish Med & Res. Center and HHMI
T Cells and MHC
12/13/2005* C. David Allis, Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, Rockefeller University
Beyond the Double Helix: Reading and Writing the 'Histone Code'
12/14/2005
The Florence Mahoney Lecture 		John Hardy, Chief, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIA
Neurodegeneration: Too Much of a Bad Thing Kills You
12/21/2005 Winter Holiday, No Lecture
12/28/2005 Winter Holiday, No Lecture
1/4/2006 Winter Holiday, No Lecture
1/11/2006 Louis Kunkel, Ph.D. , Professor of Pediatrics and of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Investigator, HHMI
Muscular Dystrophy in Humans, Mice, and Zebrafish
1/18/2006
The R.E. Dyer Lecture 		Bruce Beutler M.D. , Professor, Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute
Sensing Infection: Toll-Like Receptors and the Genetic Analysis of Mammalian Innate Immunity
1/25/2006 Mitzi Kuroda , Ph.D., HHMI investigator and Prof. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Chromatin Organization, Non-coding RNAs, and Dosage Compensation in Drosophila
2/1/2006 Michael Rossmann, Ph.D. , Hanley Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
The Structure and Function of Flaviviruses
2/8/2006 Michael Stryker, Ph.D. , William Francis Ganong Professor of Physiology, UCSF
Making Maps in the Brain
2/15/2006 Rena Wing, Ph.D. , Professor of psychiatry and human behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, and Director, Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital, Providence
Winning at Losing: The Art and Science of Long-Term Weight Control
CANCELLED!
2/22/2006		 Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, M.D., Director,Margaret Dyson Vision Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Epithelial Cell Polarity: Life in Between Two Worlds
3/1/2006
The Margaret Pittman Lecture 		Frances Brodsky, D.Phil. , Professor, Depts. of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
Evolution Of Membrane Traffic: Intelligent Design Or Not?
3/8/2006

Anne O'Garra, Ph.D. , Head, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute for Medical Research, London
Regulation of the production of IL-10 by T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells: implications for immune responses to pathogens
3/15/2006 Vamsi Mootha, M.D. , Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Genome-scale maps, measures, and models of mitochondrial function
3/22/2006 Luis Parada, Ph.D. , Professor of Cell Biology and Director, Center for Developmental Biology, UTexas SW Medical Center
Genetic modeling tumors of the nervous system in mice
3/29/2006 David E Housman, Ludwig Professor of Biology, MIT
4/5/2006
The NIH Director's Lecture 		Nora Volkow, Director, NIDA
4/12/2006 Richard Frackowiak, Professor, Institute of Neurology, University College, London
4/19/2006 Michel Nussenzweig, Sherman Fairchild Professor; Investigator, HHMI and Senior Physician, Rockefeller Univ.
4/26/2006
The NIH Director's Lecture 		Thomas Pollard, Chair, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
5/3/2006 Dan Gottschling, Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
5/10/2006 Herman Waldmann, Head, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford
5/17/2006 Steven N. Blair, President and CEO of The Cooper Institute, Dallas
5/24/2006 Thea Tlsty, Professor of Pathology, UCSF
5/31/2006 Lewis E. Kay, Professor, University of Toronto,
6/7/2006 Maynard Olson, Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine, Univ. of Washington

Special Tuesday Event
6/13/2006*

 GM Cancer Research Conference Laureates Lectures
6/21/2006 Diana Bianchi, Natalie V. Zucker Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts NE Medical Center

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