DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lectures | National Institute of General Medical Sciences

To mark its 20th anniversary, in 1982 NIGMS established an annual lecture to honor DeWitt Stetten Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Stetten served as NIGMS' third director and had a strong commitment to basic science, especially research in genetics, cellular and molecular biology, and chemistry.

Year	Title	Presenter
2024	Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Glycinergic Neurotransmission	Sudha Chakrapani, Ph.D.
2023	The Great Escape: Phage Lysis and Its Control	Ry Young, Ph.D.
2022	Biomedical Research in Rural America: Much Accomplished, Much To Do	Sally L. Hodder, M.D.
2021	Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2	Trevor Bedford, Ph.D.
2020	Rethinking General Anesthesia	Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
2019	Scalable Platforms for Generating RNA Sensors and Controllers	Christina Dawn Smolke, Ph.D.
2018	Understanding the Source of Regenerative Ability in Animals	Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
2017	Computing Cures: Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope	Rommie E. Amaro, Ph.D.
2016	Elements of Health and Disease: Inorganic Fluxes and Metal Receptors That Control Cell Fate Decisions	Thomas V. O’Halloran, Ph.D.
2015	Form Meets Function: Structurally Diverse Cilia and Their Roles in Sensory Signaling	Piali Sengupta, Ph.D.
2014	The Mechanisms of Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins	Ron Vale, Ph.D.
2013	Cancelled
2012	50^th Anniversary Symposium
	"Population Genetics in the Personal Genome Era: Genomics for the World"	Carlos D. Bustamante, Ph.D.
	"Shifting Paradigms for Pharmacologic Research"	Kathy M. Giacomini, Ph.D.
	"Microtubules: From Basic Biology to Cancer Drugs and Back Again"	Tim Mitchison, Ph.D.
2011	The Emerging Network of Data for Understanding the Interactions of Genes and Drugs	Russ B. Altman, M.D.-Ph.D.
2010	Measuring and Modeling Life-Death Decisions in Single Cells	Peter Sorger, Ph.D.
2009	Intra- and Inter-Species Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria	Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.
2008	The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription	Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D.
2007	Physiology and Immunology of the Cholinergic Anti-inflammatory Pathway	Kevin J. Tracey, M.D.
2006	Regulatory Circuitry of Embryonic Stem Cells	Richard A. Young, Ph.D.
2005	Chemistry in Living Systems: New Tools for Probing the Glycome	Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Ph.D.
2004	Ion Channels: Life's Electronic Hardware	Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
2003	RNA-Triggered Genetic Silencing Mechanisms	Andrew Z. Fire, Ph.D.
2002	40^th Anniversary Symposium: "Computational Cell Biology"
	"EGF Receptor Circuit Operation:A Paradigm from Quantitative Cell Biology"	Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Ph.D.
	"The Robustness of Evolved Genetic Networks Would Be Astonishing Were It Not Essential"	Garrett M. Odell, Ph.D.
	"The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network"	Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.
2001	"Translating the Histone Code: A Tale of Tails"	C. David Allis, Ph.D.
2000	"Revealing the Ribosome"
	"Decoding the Genetic Information on Ribosomes in Molecular Detail"	Ada E. Yonath, Ph.D.
	"Insights from the Structure of the 30S RibosomalSubunit"	Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
	"The Complete Atomic Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit from Haloarcula marismortui"	Peter B. Moore, Ph.D.
1999	"Single-Molecule Biomechanics and the Myosin Family of Molecular Motors"	James A. Spudich, Ph.D.
1998	"Mad Cows Meet Psi-Chotic Yeast: The Expansion of the Prion Hypothesis"	Susan L. Lindquist, Ph.D.
1997	"DNA-Mediated Electron Transfer: Chemistry at a Distance"	Jacqueline K. Barton, Ph.D.
1996	"Using Deadly Cone Snails to Learn Drug Design and Probe Nervous Systems"	Baldomero M. Olivera, Ph.D.
1995	"Design of Proteins and Drugs"	Peter S. Kim, Ph.D.
1994	"A Chemical Approach to Understanding and Controlling Signal Transduction"	Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D.
1993	"The Spliceosome: A Dynamic Ribonucleoprotein Machine"	Christine Guthrie, Ph.D.
1992	30^th Anniversary Symposium: "From Basic Research to Biotechnology"
	"RNA as an Enzyme: From Chemistry to Biotechnology"	Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D.
	"Catalytic Antibodies"	Peter G. Schultz, Ph.D.
	"Cellular Biotechnology: Engineering Metabolism for Enhanced Productivity and New Products"	James E. Bailey, Ph.D.
1991	"The Biochemical Machinery Regulating the Cell Division Cycle"	Marc W. Kirschner, Ph.D.
1990	"Synthesis of Telomeres"	Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D.
1989	"The Control of Timing and Spatial Organization During Cellular Differentiation"	Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.
1988	"Sequence-Specific Recognition of DNA: A Synthetic Approach"	Peter B. Dervan, Ph.D.
1987	25^th Anniversary Symposium: "DNA-Protein Interactions in the Control of Gene Expression"
	"The trp Repressor: The Chemical Details of a Genetic Switch"	Paul B. Sigler, Ph.D.
	"How Proteins See DNA and Turn Genes On and Off"	Mark S. Ptashne, Ph.D.
	"What DNA Viruses Are Telling Us About Genetic Regulation in Animal Cells"	Steven L. McKnight, Ph.D.
1986	"Heat Shock: Cellular Response to Environmental Stresses"	Mary Lou Pardue, Ph.D.
1985	"The Molecular Basis of Differential Gene Activity"	Donald D. Brown, M.D.
1984	"Cellular Signaling: What Does the Structure of the Acetylcholine Receptor Tell Us About Its Function"	Robert M. Stroud, Ph.D.
1983	"Left-Handed Z-DNA and the Regulation of Transcription"	Alexander Rich, M.D.
1982	"A Molecular Analysis of Genes That Determine Developmental Pathways"	David S. Hogness, Ph.D.

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