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Annual Sackler Lectures

The Annual Sackler Lecture is held in conjunction with one colloquium each year and is free and open to the public.  Usually hosted in the spring in Washington, D.C., the lecture draws an audience from the diverse academic, government, and policy communities in the area as well as the registered colloquium participants.

 

Quantification of Behavior
June 11-13, 2010; Washington, D.C.
Organized by Donald Pfaff and Alan Leshner
Annual Sackler Lecure presented by Nora Volkow

Evolution in Health and Medicine
April 2-3, 2009; Washington, D.C.
Organized by Peter Ellison, Diddahally R. Govindaraju, Randolph M. Nesse and Stephen C. Stearns
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by E.O. Wilson

Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development

April 3-4, 2008; Washington, D.C,
Organizers:  William Clark, Pamela Matson and Nancy Dickson
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Michael Crow

Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine
April 10-11, 2007; Washington, D.C.
Organizer:  Robert Austin
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by George Whitesides

From Functional Genomics of Model Organisms to Crop Plants for Global Health
April 3-5, 2006; Washington, D.C.
Organizers:  Diter von Wettstein, Roger Beachy and Robert Goldberg
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Senator Christopher S. Bond

Early Cities: New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial Urbanism
May 18-20, 2005; Washington, DC
Organizers: Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Colin Renfrew

Therapeutic Vaccines: Realities of Today and Hopes for Tomorrow
April 1-3, 2004; Washington, DC
Organizers: Michael Sela and Maurice Hilleman
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Anthony S. Fauci

Scientific Examination of Art: Modern Techniques in Conservation and Analysis
Mar. 19-21, 2003; Washington, DC
Chairs: Torsten Wiesel and Roald Hoffmann
Organizers: Barbara Berrie, E. Rene de la Rie, Janis Tomlinson, John Winter
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Maurizio Seracini

Self-perpetuating Structural States in Biology, Disease, and Genetics
Mar. 22-24, 2002; Washington, D.C.
Organizers: Susan Lindquist and Steven Henikoff
Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Susan Lindquist

Neural Signaling 
Feb. 15-17, 2001; Washington, D.C.
Organizer: Solomon Snyder
Sackler Lecture presented by Solomon Snyder

 

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Evolution in Health and Medicine

In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin

Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution

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