Previous Speakers
Sydney Brenner, D.Phil.,
"The Next 100 Years of Biology"
Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.,
"The Creative Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius"
Harry Dietz, M.D.,
"Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: From Molecules to Medicines"
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.,
"Wiring Nerves, Wiring Vessels: Common Mechanisms of Axon Guidance, Regeneration, and Vascular Patterning"
Marc Kirschner, Ph.D.,
"Protein Degradation and the Timing of Events in the Cell Cycle"
Kathleen Gould, Ph.D.,
"Regulating the end of the cell cycle: splitting up is hard to do"
Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.,
"Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Discovery in a Postgenomic World"
Antonis K. Hatzopoulos, Ph.D.,
"Stem Cells and Cardiac Regeneration"
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.,
"Stem Cells and Their Lineages in Skin"
Tony Hunter, Ph.D.,
"Signal Transduction in Disease and the Response to DNA Damage"
Agnes Fogo, M.D.,
"Chronic Kidney Disease: Can We Stop the Epidemic?"
Emil Unanue, M.D.,
"Cellular and Biochemical Basis for Recognition of Beta Cell Antigens in Autoimmune Diabetes"
Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D.,
"TGF-beta Regulation of Stromal-Epithelial Interactions in Cancer"
Robert Coffey, M.D.,
"The Naked Truth about TGF-α: Lessons Learned from Polarized Epithelial Cells and their Relevance to GI Neoplasia"
Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Genetics, Genomics and the Future of Medicine"
Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D.,
"From Jenner to Genome: New Approaches to Vaccinology"
Frank E Harrell Jr, Ph.D.,
"Information Allergy"
Bengt Samuelsson, M.D.,
"From Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Drug Targets: The 5-Lipoxygenase Pathway"
Bradley Efron, Ph.D.,
"Baseball, Shakespeare, and Modern Statistical Theory"
Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D.,
"Controlling the Cell Cycle"
Sten Vermund, M.D.,
"Vanderbilt Global Health Research into 2008"
Brian Kobilka, M.D.,
"Structure and Dynamics of the Human beta 2 Adrenoceptor"
Richard Hanson, Ph.D.,
"Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase: The Joy Of Thinking Outside The Box"
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.,
"Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease"
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Discovery of NO and cGMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development, Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology"
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.,
"Mutations to Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease"
Allan Brandt, PhD,
"The Tobacco Pandemic: Ethics, Health, and History"
Solomon Snyder, M.D.,
"Novel Molecular Signaling in Life and Death of Neurons"
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Musculoskeletal Regeneration: The Regenerative Engineering Approach"
Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D.,
"The NMR view of Proteins"
Ron Evans, Ph.D.,
"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
David W. Russell, Ph.D.,
"Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
"The Next 100 Years of Biology"
Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D.,
"The Creative Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius"
Harry Dietz, M.D.,
"Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: From Molecules to Medicines"
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.,
"Wiring Nerves, Wiring Vessels: Common Mechanisms of Axon Guidance, Regeneration, and Vascular Patterning"
Marc Kirschner, Ph.D.,
"Protein Degradation and the Timing of Events in the Cell Cycle"
Kathleen Gould, Ph.D.,
"Regulating the end of the cell cycle: splitting up is hard to do"
Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.,
"Opportunities and Challenges for Drug Discovery in a Postgenomic World"
Antonis K. Hatzopoulos, Ph.D.,
"Stem Cells and Cardiac Regeneration"
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.,
"Stem Cells and Their Lineages in Skin"
Tony Hunter, Ph.D.,
"Signal Transduction in Disease and the Response to DNA Damage"
Agnes Fogo, M.D.,
"Chronic Kidney Disease: Can We Stop the Epidemic?"
Emil Unanue, M.D.,
"Cellular and Biochemical Basis for Recognition of Beta Cell Antigens in Autoimmune Diabetes"
Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D.,
"TGF-beta Regulation of Stromal-Epithelial Interactions in Cancer"
Robert Coffey, M.D.,
"The Naked Truth about TGF-α: Lessons Learned from Polarized Epithelial Cells and their Relevance to GI Neoplasia"
Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Genetics, Genomics and the Future of Medicine"
Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D.,
"From Jenner to Genome: New Approaches to Vaccinology"
Frank E Harrell Jr, Ph.D.,
"Information Allergy"
Bengt Samuelsson, M.D.,
"From Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Drug Targets: The 5-Lipoxygenase Pathway"
Bradley Efron, Ph.D.,
"Baseball, Shakespeare, and Modern Statistical Theory"
Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D.,
"Controlling the Cell Cycle"
Sten Vermund, M.D.,
"Vanderbilt Global Health Research into 2008"
Brian Kobilka, M.D.,
"Structure and Dynamics of the Human beta 2 Adrenoceptor"
Richard Hanson, Ph.D.,
"Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase: The Joy Of Thinking Outside The Box"
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.,
"Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease"
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Discovery of NO and cGMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development, Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology"
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.,
"Mutations to Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease"
Allan Brandt, PhD,
"The Tobacco Pandemic: Ethics, Health, and History"
Solomon Snyder, M.D.,
"Novel Molecular Signaling in Life and Death of Neurons"
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Musculoskeletal Regeneration: The Regenerative Engineering Approach"
Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D.,
"The NMR view of Proteins"
Ron Evans, Ph.D.,
"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
David W. Russell, Ph.D.,
"Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
Vanderbilt Medical Center has launched the Discovery Lecture Series featuring the nation's most eminent scientists, who will speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.
Two Lectures Monthly | 208 Light Hall
Two Lectures Monthly | 208 Light Hall
Featured Discovery Lecture Speaker
David W. Russell, Ph.D.
McDermott Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
May 22, 2008
Lecture - "Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
Sponsor: Center for Molecular Toxicology
4:00 p.m. / 208 Light Hall
McDermott Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
May 22, 2008
Lecture - "Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
Sponsor: Center for Molecular Toxicology
4:00 p.m. / 208 Light Hall
Join us in 208 Light Hall for the lecture.
New speakers will be announced soon
Podcast url:
http://mediasite.vanderbilt.edu/mediasite/MediasiteData/Presentations/discovery_lecture_series.xml
http://mediasite.vanderbilt.edu/mediasite/MediasiteData/Presentations/discovery_lecture_series.xml