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1998 - Dr. Svante Pääbo, then Professor of Biology at the University of Munich, Germany and now Director of the Max Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Dr. Pääbo gave two lectures, one October 15th, entitled, "Human DNA from a Molecular Perspective", and one October 16th, entitled "Ancient DNA as a Means to Reconstruct the History and Behavior of Extinct Animals". |
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1999 - Dr. J. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Celera Genomics, Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Venter's lecture, entitled, "Decoding the Human Genome", was given on October 22nd. |
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2001 - Dr. David Page, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Page's lecture, entitled, "Mammalian Sex Chromosomes and Male Germ Cells: An Evolving Alliance", was given on June 15th. |
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2002 - Dr. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor of Genetics, Emeritus, at Stanford University, Stanford Alumni Magazine. Dr. Cavalli-Sforza's lecture was entitled, "How Humans Became Human", and was given on July 19th in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Short Course on Medical and Mammalian Genetics at The Jackson Laboratory. |
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2003 - Dr. Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin - Madison. The Carroll Lab at the University of Wisconsin Dr. Carroll's lecture was entitled "From DNA to Diversity: The Art and Evolution of Animal Design", and was given on November 7th.
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2005 - Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon is The Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. He is Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and the Director of the Center for Genome Sciences at Washington University. The Gordon Lab at Washington University Dr. Gordon's lecture was entitled "The Human Gut Microbiota: Terra Incognita Becomes More Cognita", and was given on June 9th. |
 
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2006 - Drs. B. Rosemary Grant and Peter R. Grant are members of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, New Jersey. They are members the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1997) and in 2005 they were awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize. Dr. B Rosemary Grant Dr. Peter R. Grant Their lecture was entitled "Evolution of Darwin's Finches", and was given on September 8th. |
