National Institutes of Health
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series

Emery N. Brown, M.D, Ph.D., the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present "A Look at the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia" on March 2, 2011. The lecture can be viewed live via videocast.

Christopher Newgard, Ph.D., the Director of the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, and the W. David and Sarah W. Stedman Distinguished Professor at Duke University Medical Center, will present "Comprehensive Metabolic Profiling for Defining Obesity and Diabetes Mechanisms" on March 9, 2011. The lecture can be viewed live via videocast.

Special Monday Lecture
March 14, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in Masur Auditorium
Rebecca Skloot
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"

Rebecca Skloot is a science writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; and others. The Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series in conjunction with the NIH Inter-Institute Bioethics Interest Group will present the Annual J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in Masur.

Skloot has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW, and is guest editor of The Best American Science Writing 2011. She has taught at the University of Memphis, the University of Pittsburgh, and NYU.

Her debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, became an instant New York Times bestseller. It won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and was named The Best Book of 2010 by Amazon.com, and a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly; O, The Oprah Magazine; The New York Times; and numerous others. It is being translated into more than twenty languages, and adapted into a young adult book, and an HBO film produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. For more information, visit RebeccaSkloot.com.

Her talk can be viewed via live videocast by those watching from the NIH Network.

March 16, 2011 at 3 p.m. in Masur Auditorium
Dr. Alexander Borst
"In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision"

Alexander Borst, Ph.D., the Director of the Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, will present "In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision" on March 16, 2011. The lecture can be viewed live via videocast.

Special Thursday Lecture
March 17, 2011 at 3 p.m. in Masur Auditorium
Dr. Fred Gage
“Neural Plasticity and Diversity in the Adult Mammalian Brain"

Fred Gage, Ph.D., the Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, will present “Neural Plasticity and Diversity in the Adult Mammalian Brain" on March 17, 2010. The lecture can be viewed live via videocast.

Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at MassGeneral Institute fo Neurodegenerative Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, will present a Director's Lecture on March 23, 2011. His lecture, "Alzheimer's Disease: From Genes to Novel Therapeutics," can be viewed live via videocast.

Steve Carr, Ph.D., the Director of Proteomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will present "Quantitative Biology and Biomarker Discovery without Immunoassays" on March 30, 2011. The lecture can be viewed live via videocast.