All plenary sessions will be presented in Alumni Hall’s 7th floor lecture hall.
Plenary Session 1—Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture
MicroRNAs, from Model Organisms to Human Biology
11:00 a.m., Thursday, 15 October
Victor Ambros, PhD
Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Plenary Session 2—Provost Lecture
Light and Energy, Mesoscopic Systems for Solar Power Conversion and Storage
4:00 p.m., Thursday, 15 October
Michael Grätzel, PhD
Professor and Director, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Plenary Session 3—Mellon Lecture
Fifty Years of Solitude: A Circuit for Social Behavior
in C. elegans
11:00 a.m., Friday, 16 October
Cori Bargmann, PhD
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
Plenary Session 4—Klaus Hofmann Lecture
How Do We Sense Infections? Toll-like Receptors and the Genetic Analysis of Innate
Immunity
4:00 p.m., Friday, 16 October
Bruce Beutler, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics
The Scripps Research Institute