2012 Speakers

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.

  • President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Reversing Childhood Obesity: Helping All Children Lead Healthier Lives

February 9, 2012

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Titia de Lange, Ph.D.Titia de Lange, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt Prize Winner

  • Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics
  • American Cancer Society Research Professor
  • Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York

How telomeres solve the end-protection problem

February 23, 2012

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Trudi Schupbach, Ph.D.Trudi Schupbach, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Molecular Biology Princeton University
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Control of EGF Receptor Activity and Axis Establishment in Drosophila Oogenesis

March 1, 2012

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Eric Wieschaus, Ph.D.Eric Wieschaus, Ph.D.

  • Squibb Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
  • Princeton University
  • Nobel Prize, Physiology 1995
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Mechanics of Cell Shape Change in Drosophila

March 8, 2012

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Gail Martin, Ph.D.Gail Martin, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Anatomy, UCSF
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member, US National Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary Doctorate of Science, University College London, 2011

FGF signaling in vertebrate organogenesis: how Sprouty genes help to get it right

April 12, 2012

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Jim Wells, Ph.D.Jim Wells, Ph.D.

  • Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  • University California San Francisco
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Engineering Cells to Death

April 26, 2012

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Jeff Wrana, Ph.D.Jeff Wrana, Ph.D.

  • Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology and Cancer
  • Samuel Luenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Professor, Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar

Intersection of Polarity and Morphogen Pathways in Development and Cancer

May 3, 2012

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R. Alta Charo, J.D.R. Alta Charo, J.D.

  • Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics University of Wisconsin Law School
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Faster, Safer, Better: Thoughts on Pharmaceutical Development

September 20, 2012

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Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Fear from Mice to Men: Implications for PTSD and other Disorders of Fear and Anxiety

September 27, 2012

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Joe Palca, Ph.D.Joe Palca, Ph.D.

  • Science Correspondent for NPR

News and Science: A Marriage of Convenience

October 25, 2012

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Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.

  • Institute Professor
  • Faculty Member of the David H. Koch Institute and Department of Biology
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Institute of Medicine
  • Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1993
  • National Medal of Science 2004

The biology of non-coding RNAs

November 15, 2012

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Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.

  • Newton Professor of Neuroscience
  • Director, Simons Center for the Social Brain Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Mechanisms and Emerging Therapeutics for Autism Spectrum Disorders

November 29, 2012

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Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D.Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D.

  • J. Lowell Orbison Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Director of the Center for RNA Biology University of Rochester
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Tales from the Cellular Underworld: mRNA Decay and Disease

December 6, 2012

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Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.

  • Avram Goldstein Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  • Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Member, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Physiology and Pathology of Neurotransmitter Release

December 13, 2012

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