The MBL Advanced Research Training Course (ARTC) season has begun!

Endowed lectures in the MBL’s ARTCs advance the MBL’s commitment to providing rewarding opportunities for the world’s brightest minds. Through the sustainability offered by endowments, the MBL continues to provide inspiring presentations from renowned scientists to the hundreds of students, faculty, researchers, and public that visit the MBL each year while commemorating members of the community.

Additional details are available on the public events calendar and highlighted on campus monitors. Please check the website for any adjustments prior to attending any of these in-person, highly-scientific lectures.

If you would like to endow a lecture, please reach out to the MBL’s Development team: [email protected]

June

The S. Meryl Rose Lectureship
Saturday, June 7, 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium
Michalis Averof, PhD, Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and Group Leader, Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon
Perfect Regeneration of a Complex Organ: Does Regeneration Mirror Development?

The Thomas Sargent Reese Endowed Lecture in Neurobiology
Monday, June 9, 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Kristen Harris, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
Pre- and Postsynaptic Ultrastructure of Long-Term Potentiation

The Jack and Rosalyn Rosenbluth Endowed Lecture in Neurobiology
Monday, June 16, 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Lisa Goodrich, PhD, Vice Chair of Neurobiology & Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title TBD

The Frank R. Lillie Lecture in Embryology
Tuesday, June 17, 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium Auditorium
Laurinda Jaffe, PhD, Professor, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Talk Title TBD

The Richard G. Kessel Lecture in Embryology
Friday, June 20, 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium
Deirdre Lyons, PhD, Associate Professor of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Talk Title TBD

The Kensal E. Van Holde Lectureship in Physiology
Saturday, June 21, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Adam Cohen, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Physics, Harvard University
Bringing Bioelectricity to Light

The Irvin Isenberg Lectureship
Tuesday, June 24, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Liam Holt, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University School of Medicine
Herpes Virus Fluidizes the Nucleus

The Gail and Elkan Blout Lecture
Tuesday, June 24, 9:00 AM, C.V. Starr, Room 207
Margaret Phillips, PhD, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Developing New Drugs for Malaria using Target-Based and Phenotypic-Based Approaches

The Nancy S. Rafferty Lectureship
Saturday, June 28, 1:30 PM, Speck Auditorium
Daniel Rokhsar, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development, University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title TBD

July

The Joe L. Martinez, Jr. and James G. Townsel Endowed Lectureship in SPINES
Wednesday, July 2, 4:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD, Department Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Talk Title TBD

The Jean & Katsuma Dan Lectureship in Physiology
Thursday, July 3, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Stephan Grill, PhD, Director, Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, MPI-CBG Dresden
Physics of Structure Formation in Living Systems

The Edward Kravitz Endowed Lectureship in Neurobiology
Monday, July 7, 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Na Ji, PhD, Luis Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Imaging the Brain at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

The Jack and Rosalyn Rosenbluth Endowed Lecture in Physiology
Tuesday, July 8, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Wallace Marshall, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
How Cells Learn

The John Saunders Endowed Lectureship in Embryology
Friday, July 11, 9:00 AM, Speck Auditorium
Olivier Pourquie, PhD, Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Laying Down the Body Plan: Lessons from the Embryo

The Gertrude Forkosh Waxler Endowed Lecture
Friday, July 11, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Lillian Fritz-Laylin, PhD, Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cytoskeletal Evolution is a Key Driver of Eukaryotic Diversification

The Maynard and Suzanne Goldman Lectureship
Friday, July 11, 10:30 AM, Location TBD
Daniel Bond, PhD, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota
Talk Title TBD

Andrew Szent-Györgyi Lectureship in Physiology
Monday, July 14, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Margaret Gardel, PhD, Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Mechanical Information Processing in Adherent Cells

The Masakazu Konishi Endowed Lectureship in Neural Systems and Behavior
Wednesday, July 16, 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Nicholas Bellono, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Taste by Touch in Octopus

The Abigail Salyers Endowed Lecture in Microbial Diversity
Wednesday, July 16, 10:30 AM, Location TBD
Leslie Day, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Talk Title TBD

The Tay Hayashi Lectureship in Cell Physiology
Thursday, July 17, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Ethan Garner, PhD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
The Essential Roles of Polymers, Mechanics, and Cell Geometry in Bacterial Growth and Cell Division

The Paul Englund Endowed Lectureship in Biology of Parasitism
Friday, July 18, 5:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Alan Sher, PhD, NIH Distinguished Investigator, Emeritus, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Learning Basic Immunology from Parasitic Disease

The Roger Milkman Endowed Lecture in Microbial Diversity
Friday, July 18, 10:30 AM, Location TBD
Bradley Stevenson, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
Talk Title TBD

The Arthur K. Parpart Endowed Lectureship
Saturday, July 19, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD, Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus
From Muscle to Memory: Long-Distance Calcium Signaling in Neurons

The Holger W. Jannasch Endowed Lecture in Microbial Diversity
Saturday, July 19, 2:00 PM, Location TBD
Julia Maresca, PhD, Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Talk Title TBD

The John J. Cebra Endowed Lecture in Physiology
Monday, July 21, 9:00 AM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Ilya Levental, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia
Design Principles of Living Membranes

The Douglas Eveleigh Endowed Lecture
Tuesday, July 22, 9:00 AM, Location TBD
Sean Crosson, PhD, Rudolph Hugh Endowed Professor, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Professor, BioMolecular Science Gateway, Michigan State University
Talk Title TBD

The John G. Nicholls Endowed Lectureship in Neural Systems and Behavior
Wednesday, July 23, 8:00 PM, Speck Auditorium
Hans Hofmann, PhD, Professor of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin
Evolutionary Neuroscience of Social Behavior

The Jack Edwards and Aaron Mitchell Endowed Lecture in Molecular Mycology
Thursday, July 31, 8:00 PM, Lillie Building, Bay Reading Room
Damian Krysan, MD, PhD, Samuel J. Fomon Chair in Pulmonology/Allergy/Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa
Host, Pathogen and Treatment: The Trinity of Medical Mycology

Ruth Sager Lecture in Genetics
Thursday, July 31, 7:30 PM, Speck Auditorium
Kara Cerveny, PhD, Ronald A. Laing Professor, Biology; Chair, Neuroscience Program, Reed College | Martin Distel, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
Life-Long Growth and Development: In Vivo Cell Behaviors of the Zebrafish Visual System | Pediatric Sarcoma Modeling and Drug Screening in Zebrafish

August

The Walter Massey Family Lectureship
Tuesday, August 5, 8:00 PM, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Eero Simoncelli, PhD, Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science and Psychology, New York University
Talk Title TBD

The Deborah Hogan and Andrew Alspaugh Endowed Lecture
Friday, August 8, 7:00 PM, Lillie Building, Bay Reading Room
Paul Magwene, PhD, Professor of Biology and Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University
Fungal Evolution in Human Hosts: The Complex Genomic and Phenotypic Landscape of Chronic Cryptococcosis