MB&B announces the 2015 Richards Lecturer, David A. Agard, from the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, February 2nd at 4:00 pm in 202 OML. His seminar is entitled “The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone: New Insights into the Yin and Yang of Client Activation”. All are welcome to attend the seminar.
The annual Frederic M. Richards Lecture in Structural Biology is given by a leader in the general subject area that has been Fred’s main scientific concern. Not only will it honor Fred, it will be a continuing intellectual enrichment for the faculty and students of the Department. The Richards Lecturer receives a Galileo thermometer.
Past Recipients:
1992 – Michael Rossmann, Biological Sciences, Purdue University
1995 – Lubert Stryer, Stanford University School of Medicine
1997 – Pierre Chambon, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
1998 – Timothy Richmond, ETH, Honggerberg
1999 – Christopher Dobson, University of Oxford
2000 – Brian Matthews, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
2002 – Janet Thornton, University College, London
2003 – John Kuriyan, University of California, Berkeley
2005 – Roderick MacKinnon, The Rockefeller University, HHMI
2007 – James Wells, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
2008 – Cyrus Chothia, Medical Research Council, Cambridge
2010 - Louise Johnson, University of Oxford
2010 – Stephen H. White, University of California at Irvine
2012 – Wendell Lim, University of California, San Francisco
2013 – Robert Fletterick, University of California, San Francisco
2014 – Joseph Gall – Carnegie Institution for Science