Katharine D. McCormick Distinguished Lecture Series
2012
Christi
ane Nüsslein-Volhard, PhD
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard received the Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Tübingen in 1973 and carried out postdoctoral research with Walter Gehring in Basel and Klaus Sander in Freiburg. She was a group leader in Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1978-1984 before being appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology in Tübingen in 1985. She studies the molecular and genetic basis of development, and focuses on the establishment of cell polarity in Drosophila and organ formation, growth and cell migration in the vertebrate, zebrafish. In 1995 she shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Wieschaus and Ed Lewis for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development. Nüsslein-Volhard is also the recipient of the Lasker Award, the Prix Louis Jeantet, the Eernst Schering Prize; she is an elected member of EMBO, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, and has received honorary degrees from many universities including Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Rockefeller. In 2004 Nüsslein-Volhard started the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation to aid promising young female German scientists with children.
To view her talk on “The development of color patters in fishes: towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty” click here.
2009
Carol Greider, PhD
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
“Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction” at the Braun Auditorium (Chemistry Building). Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 4:00pm
Dr. Greider’s work focuses on telomeres and telomere shortening in disease. In 1984 along with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres. Dr. Greider worked at Cold Spring Harbor laboratory for 10 years before moving in 1997 to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2004, she was appointed as the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Dr. Greider has won a number of awards for the work on telomeres and telomerase. In 2003, Dr. Greider was elected to the national Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, she was the co-recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Dr. Greider currently directs a group of ten researchers who are focused on understanding telomeres and telomerase and their role in chromosome stability, stem cell failure and cancer. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomores and the enzyme telomerase."
2008
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel
“Genomic Medicine and Progeria: Cardiovascular Insights Gained from Premature Aging”
Dr. Nabel joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 1999 as the Institute’s Scientific Director of Clinical Research. In 2005, Dr. Nabel became Director of the NHLBI, where she oversees an extensive national research portfolio of basic and clinical research to prevent, diagnose, and treat heart, lung, and blood diseases. She will speak on “Genomic Medicine and Progeria: Cardiovascular Insights Gained from Premature Aging” at Medicine Grand Rounds on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 8:00 am in the Braun Auditorium in the Chemistry Building.
2006
Dr. Linda Buck
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and Associate Director of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Affiliate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. In 2004, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
She was previously a Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Buck is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Buck's research has provided key insights into the mechanisms that underlie the sense of smell in mammals. In recognition of her contributions, Dr. Buck has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including The Takasago Award for Research in Olfaction, The LVMH Moet Science for Art Prize, The Unilever Science Award, The R.H. Wright Award in Olfactory Research, The Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Medical Research, The Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize, the Gairdner Foundation International Award.
2004
Dr. Carol Prives
Carol Prives, Ph.D, is the DaCosta Professor of Biology and the Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. She is the recipient of an NIH Merit award and in 1998 was awarded an American Cancer Society Research Professorship. In 2000 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is internationally recognized for her work on the p53 tumor suppressor gene.
Dr. Prives was born in Montreal and received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University. She did postdoctoral research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before joining first the Weizmann Institute in Israel and then Columbia University. She serves on the editorial boards of Cell, Genes and Development and Cancer Research, among others. She has also served on a number of scientific advisory boards and review boards, including NIH Study Sections and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The talk will be “Regulation of the p53-Mdm2 Circuit: A Major Checkpoint in Mammalian Cells” on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at 12:00 noon.
2004
Dr. Huda Zoghbi
An internationally renowned scientist, Dr. Huda Zoghbi holds full professorships in the departments of pediatrics, neuroscience, and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. Born in Beirut, Dr. Zoghbi began her medical training at the American University of Beirut and completed her degree at Nashville's Meharry Medical College in 1979. In 1996, she became an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2000, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Zoghbi is the youngest Baylor recipient and the first woman from the College to be selected to the Institute.
Among the honors Dr. Zoghbi has received are the Sidney Carter Award from the American Academy of Neurology, the Javits Award from the National Institutes of Health, and the E. Mead Johnson Award for Pediatric Research--the nation's most distinguished pediatric research award. Dr. Zoghbi will speak on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 4:30 pm, on "Breaking Down the Pathogenesis of a Neurodegenerative Disease Using Cross-Species Studies” in the Fairchild Auditorium.
Other Previous McCormick Speakers
| 2002 | Dr. Brigid L.M. Hogan | |
| 2001 | Dr. Susan Lindquist | |
| 1998 | Dr. Joan Brugge | |
| 1998 | Dr. Mary Lou Pardue | |
| 1996 | Dr. Elaine Fuchs | |
| 1996 | Dr. Carla J. Shatz | |
| 1994 | Dr. Janet D. Rowley | |
| 1993 | Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn | |
| 1992 | Dr. Philippa Marrach | |
| 1991 | Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman | |
| 1990 | Dr. Nicole Le Douarin | |
| 1989 | Dr. Joan A. Steitz | Unable to locate title of talk |
| 1988 | Dr. June E. Osborn | “The AIDS epidemic: strategies for prevention” |
| 1995 | Dr. Marilyn G. Farquahar | “A cellular and molecular view of glomerular disease” |
| 1984 | Dr. Helen Caldicott | “The Politics of Survival” |
| 1983 | Dr. Maxine F. Singer | “The Enigma of scattered repeated sequences in mammalian DNA” |
| 1982 | Dr. Judith Rodin | “Obesity: Why the losing battle?” |
| 1981 | Dr. Marian E. Koshland | Unable to locate information |
| 1980 | Dr. Maria I. New | “An update of congenital adrenal hyperplasia” |
| 1979 | Dr. Rose O. Payne | “Footprints on the lymphocyte surface” |
| 1978 | Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini | “Recent developments in the study of nerve growth factor” |
| 1978 | Dr. Elizabeth D. Hay | “Tissue interaction in the developing cornea” |
| 1977 | Dr. Barbara Korsch | “Gaps in Doctor-Patient Communication” |
| 1976 | Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow | “Radioimmunoassay: it’s role in clinical medicine” |
| 1975 | Dr. Helen M. Ranney | “The Sickle Polymer” |
| 1974 | Dr. Mary Ellen Avery | “Recent Studies in the Pulmonary Surfactant” |
| 1973 | Dr. Estelle R. Ramey | “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” |