Seminars and Events

Thursday Series

Distinguished Lecture Series

Please visit the Department of Cell Biology for a complete "Distinguished Lecture Series" schedule. These seminars are held on Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in Room 147 of the Nanaline Duke Building and are an integral part of the "Thursday Series." ______________________________________________________

30th Annual Jim McGinnis Lecture

The Duke Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology will present the 30th Annual Jim McGinnis Lecture on Tuesday, March 18th from 4:00 to 5:15pm in the Bryan Research Building Auditorium.

The guest lecturer will be Dr. Lucy Shapiro, Professor and Associate Chair of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine. Shapiro is also a Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Research.

Shapiro is a molecular developmental biologist who in 1989 created and chaired the Department of Developmental Biology. Shapiro cultivated a single organism into one of the most powerful experimental systems for understanding the control of the bacterial cell cycle and the establishment of cell fate. Her research with Caulobacter has yielded fundamental insights and has created valuable paradigms for understanding the bacterial cell as an integrated system in which the transcriptional circuitry is interwoven with the three-dimensional deployment of key regulatory and morphological proteins. In pioneering work Shapiro initiated the "cell biology" of prokaryotes, resulting in the first demonstration that proteins, such as chemoreceptors and signalling proteins, are dynamically localized in the cell, adding a spatial dimension to regulatory networks. Shapiro has received numerous awards and honors for her work.

Shapiro will speak on "The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network." 

A reception will follow the lecture.