All Lectures are in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, at 3:00 p.m.on Wednesdays (exceptions are marked with an * below). 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. Following the lectures are informal receptions featuring poster displays by winners of the Fellows Awards for Research Excellence (FARE).
Hearing Impaired? The WALS are now captioned for the Web; A monitor with the captions is available at the lecture in Masur auditorium. For further information or to arrange interpretation for other meetings and lectures, 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 for the WALS, call: Hilda Madine (301 594-5595).

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The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lectures 2002-2003
Date Lecture Speaker Institution  
Host
Lecture Title
Benefactor
9/11/2002 NIH Director’s E.O Wilson Harvard  
DCEG-NCI
The Future of Life

  
9/18/2002 WALS Elizabeth Komives UCSD  

ProteomicsIG
Biophysics of Protein-Protein Interactions
NIMH
9/25/2002 WALS Terry Sejnowski Salk  

Integrative Neuro, Biomedical Computing
The Dynamic Brain
NINDS
10/2/2002 WALS Mickey Goldberg Columbia Univ.  
Integrative Neuro/Fellows
The Physiology and Psychophysics of Visual Attention
NIMH
10/9/2002 Mider Jeff Trent NHGRI  
DCEG-NCI
Integration of Genetics, Genomics, and Biology of Malignant Melanoma
  
10/16/2002 RESEARCH FESTIVAL No WALS None  

10/23/2002 Stetten Symposium 1. Douglas Laufenberger, 2. Garrett Odell, 3. Lucille Shapiro
 

NIGMS
1. EGF Receptor Circuit Operation: A Paradigm from Quantitative Cell Biology. 2. The Robustness of Evolved Genetic Networks Would be Astonishing were it not Essential. 3. The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network
NCBI
10/30/2002 WALS Neil Risch Stanford  

Genetics IG
The SNP Endgame
DCEG-NCI
11/6/2002 Astute Clinician Henry Masur, M.D NIH  

Clinical Research
AIDS: A Window on Infectious Diseases
/CC
11/13/2002 WALS Danny Reinberg RWJ Sch M&D NJ  
Transcription Factors
Chromatin and its Impact on Gene Expression and Cellular Memory
NIAAA
11/20/2002 Shannon Lecture Donald Kennedy AAAS  

NIHAA
A Second Postwar Revolution in Biomedicine
NIMH
11/27/2002 NO LECTURE DAY B4 Thanksgiving!
 

12/4/2002 WALS Pam Silver Harvard  

Yeast IG
From Genes to Pores--Nuclear Transport and Growth Control
NHGRI
12/11/2002 WALS Roberto Kolter Harvard  
Lambda Lunch
An Ecological Role for Pseudomonas Virulance Factors
NIDCR
12/18/2002 Khoury Lecture Nadia Rosenthal EMBL  

NCI
Promethus' Vulture and the Promise of Stem Cells
NCI-CCR
1/8/2003 WALS Randy Schekman, Ph.D. Berkeley  

Cell biology IG
Molecular Mechanism of Protein Sorting in the Secretory Pathway
NIDDK
1/15/2003 Dyer Lecture Susan GottesmanPh.D. NCI  

NCI
Biological Circuits with Small RNA Switches
/NCI
1/22/2003 WALS Carol W. Greider, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins  
Genetics IG
Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction
NCI/CCR
1/29/2003 WALS Janet Daling, Ph.D. Fred.Hutch.Can Res Center  

Epidemiol IG
The Epidemiology of Breast Cancer among Older Women Between 65-79 years: An Understudied Age Group
NIA
2/5/2003 WALS Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D. Columbia  

Behavioral/Social Sci. IG
Growing up Poor in the United States: Research, Policy and Practice
NINDS
2/12/2003 Director’s Lecture Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. Baylor Col. of Med  

GeneticsIG/NIDCD
Pathogenesis Studies of Polyglutamine-Induced Neurodegenerative Disease
/NIDCD
2/19/2003 WALS William T. Newsome, Ph.D. Stanford Univ.  

Integrative Neuro Ig
Neural Correlates of 'Experienced Value' in the Parietal Cortex
NIMH
2/26/2003 WALS Ralph Steinman, M.D., Ph.D. Rockefeller  
Immunol IG
Dendritic cells and the Control of the Immune Response
/Fellows/NIDDK
3/5/2003 WALS Stephen Elledge, Ph.D. Baylor Col. of Medicine  

Yeast/Mouse IGs
Sensing and Responding to DNA Damage
NCI-CCR
3/12/2003 Florence Mahoney Lecture Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. UCSF  
NIA
Telomeres and Telomerase: Their Functional Interplay and its Cellular Consequences
NIA
3/19/2003 WALS Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. UCSF  

Immunol. IG
Regulating T Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling
NIDDK
3/26/2003 WALS Stanislaus Leibler, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ.  
Lambda Lunch
Tinkering and Modeling of Genetic Networks
NHGRI
4/2/2003 Cancelled
WALS		 D.A. Henderson Johns Hopkins/HHS  

Clinical Research IG
<Cancelled>
NIAID
4/9/2003 WALS George Whitesides Harvard  
Chemistry
Polyvalency: From Influenza to Anthrax
NEI
4/16/2003 Gordon Jeremiah Stamler Northwestern  
Epidemiol. IG
Nutrition, Blood Pressure, Cholesterol--And Low Risk
NHLBI
4/23/2003 WALS Sofia Merajver Univ. of Mich.  

Breast Cancer IG/Fellows
Inflammatory breast cancer: Genetic Determinants and Challenges for Novel Therapeutics
NIDA
4/30/2003 WALS Roger Brent Molec. Sci. Institute Inc.  

Lambda Lunch
The Alpha Project and the Dream of a Predictive Biology
NCI/CCR
5/7/2003 Pittman Lecture Pascale Cossart Pasteur Inst.  
NIAID

Fascinating Strategies Used by the Bacterial Pathogen Listeria Monocytgenes
to Establish an Infection
5/14/2003 WALS Joachim Frank NY State Dept. of Health  
Structural Biol
What Makes it Tick? -- Understanding the Dynamics of the Ribosome
using Cryo-electron Microscopy
NIAMS
5/21/2003 WALS Eric Weischaus Princeton  

Cell biol. IG
From Long-term Gradients to Local Cell Shape Changes:
How the Drosophila Embryo Controls its Morphogenesis
NHLBI
5/28/2003 WALS Richard Locksley UCSF  

ImmunolIG
Tracking Immunity In Vivo
NIAID
6/4/2003 WALS John Kuriyan Berkeley  
Structural Biol
Cancer Drugs and ON/OFF Switches in Protein Kinases: Structural Studies
on the Specificity of the CML Drug STI-571/Gleevec
NIDDK
6/11/2003 GM Cancer Research Conference Laureates Lectures
 

2003 KETTERING PRIZEWINNER:
V. CRAIG JORDAN, PhD, DSc
Diana, Princess of Wales, Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
*V. CRAIG JORDAN is cited for pioneering the practical use
of anti-estrogens, particularly tamoxifen, as a targeted
therapy for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.
...........................................................
2003 MOTT CO-PRIZEWINNERS:
YUAN CHANG, PhD, MD
Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute
PATRICK S. MOORE, MD, MPH
Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute
*YANG CHANG and PATRICK MOORE are cited for their discovery
and characterization of the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma.
............................................................
2003 MOTT CO-PRIZEWINNERS:
PIERRE CHAMBON, MD
Honorary Professor, College de France and Professor Emeritus
Universite Louis Pasteur
RONALD M. EVANS, PhD
Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies and
Investigator, HHMI
*PIERRE CHAMBON and RONALD EVANS are cited for their major
contributions to our understanding of the large superfamily of
steroid and nuclear hormone receptors.
 The Office of the Director, NIH

Cancelled
6/18/2003

 Director’s Lecture Eric Lander MIT/Whitehead  

DCEG-NCI
<Cancelled>
For additional information about the Wednesday Afternoon Lectures, please contact Ms. Hilda Madine, 301-454-5595.
The NIH/FAES is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The NIH/FAES has designated this educational activity for a maximum of 45 category 1 creditstowards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he or she actually spent in the activity.
The CME educational objective for this activity is to enable participants to: 1. Identify key questions in the speaker's area of investigation 2. Identify approaches used by the speaker to answer these questions. The target audience for the WALS is: advanced students 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.
This page is updated regularly as additional information is available. It was last updated on 6/05/2003 by Celia Hooper

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