Chilton Lectures Archives
| Year | Date | Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | April 17 | James A. Wells, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF Harry Wm. and Diana V. Hind Distinguished Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF |
Attacking the Surface-ome of Cancer Cells |
| 2018 | April 18 |
Stuart Schreiber, Ph.D.
Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
|
Chemical Biology-based Approach to Understanding and Overcoming Cancer Therapy Resistance |
| 2017 | May 24 |
Judith P. Klinman, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
|
Looking Beyond the Classics: New Paradigms in Enzyme Catalysis |
| 2016 | April 20 | Carol Greider, Ph.D. Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University |
Telomeres and disease: The maintenance of the telomere length equilibrium |
| 2015 | April 15 | Takao Kondo, Ph.D. Designated Professor, Group of Biochronometry, and Division of Biological Science at Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University |
Measuring Time of Day in Cyanobacteria by Circadian Clock Protein KaiC |
| 2014 | April 16 | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D. Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University |
Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics |
| 2013 | April 24 | Andrew G. Myers, Ph.D. Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University |
Bringing the Full Power of Chemical Synthesis to Bear on the Discovery of New Antibiotics |
| 2012 | April 25 | Lewis Cantley, Ph.D. Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cancer Center Chief, Division of Signal Transduction, Harvard Medical School |
P13K and Cancer Cell Metabolism |
| 2011 | April 13 | David Eisenberg, D.Phil. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Investigator, HHMI Director, DOE Institute For Genomics & Proteomics University of California, Los Angeles |
The Amyloid State of Proteins |
| 2010 | March 24 | Peter Walter, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Investigator, HHMI University of California, San Francisco |
The Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease |
| 2009 | May 13 | Joanne Chory, Ph.D. Professor & Director, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory Investigator, HHMI Salk Institute |
Dissection of Growth Control Networks in Plants |
| 2008 | April 9 | Randy Schekman, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator, UC Berkeley |
Transport Vesicle Biogenesis: Mechanism and Disease Connections |
| 2007 | April 4 | Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D. John H. Ford Professor and Chair Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology |
Vertebrate Rhondopsin Sees the Light: Structure and Mechanism of G Protein-coupled Receptor Signaling |
| 2006 | May 10 | Harry F. Noeller, Ph.D. Robert Louis Sinsheimer Professor of Biology Director, Center for Molecular Biology |
Studies on Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Ribosome |
| 2005 | March 30 | Peter Agre, M.D. Professor of Biological Chemistry, Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine |
| 2004 | March 31 | K.C. Nicolaou, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego |
The Chemistry and Biology of Nature's Most Intriguing Molecules |
| 2003 | April 2 | Grahame Hardie, Ph.D. Professor, School of Life Sciences, Dundee University, Scotland UK |
AMP-activated Protein Kinase: A sensor of cellular energy status and a key drug target in obesity and diabetes |
| 2002 | April 17 | John E. Walker, Ph.D., FRS Director, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Medical Research Council, Cambridge |
Rotary Mechanism of ATP Synthase |
| 2001 | May 16 | Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale Medical School, Connecticut |
Mechanisms of mRNA Export and Stability |
| 2000 | May 3 | Jack E. Dixon, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan |
Phosphoryl Transfer: A key element of signal transduction |
| 1999 | March 10 | Daniel E. Koshland, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular & Biochemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
The Role of Protein Conformational Changes in Catalysis and Evolution |
| 1998 | March 11 | Jeff Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Genetics, Investigator, HHMI, Rockefeller University, New York, NY |
Leptin and the Control of Body Weight |
| 1997 | March 26 | Philip Cohen, FRS, FRSE Royal Society Research Professor of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, England |
Specific Protein Kinase Inhibitors Usher in a New Area of Signal Transduction Research |
| 1996 | May 8 | Stephen M. Prescott, M.D. Director, Program in Human Molecular Biology & Genetics, University of Utah, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics |
Cellular and Molecular Events in Early Inflammation |
| 1995 | S. Moncada | ||
| 1994 | March 8 | M. Daniel Lane, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Department of Biological Chemistry Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
Control of Gene Transcription during Adipocyte Differentiation |
| 1993 | April 13 | John M. Glomset, M.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory, University of Washington; Professor, Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, University of Washington School of Medicine |
A New Pathway of Phospholipid biosynthesis in Animal Cells |
| 1992 | April 21 | Gottfried Schatz, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Import of Proteins from the Cytoplasm into Mitochondria |
| 1991 | March 7 | Bengt Borgstrom, M.D. Professor, Department of Medical & Physiological Chemistry, University of Lund, Sweden |
Fat Digestion and Absorption: Past, Present and Future |
| 1990 | June 8 | Hans Kornberg, D.Sc., Sc.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK | How Carbohydrates Cross the Lipid Membrane in Bacteria: What is true of E. coli may be Relevant for E. lephants |
| 1989 | April 24 | Michael J. Berridge, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
Inositol Lipids and Calcium Signaling |
| 1987 | May 5 | Yasutomi Nishizuka, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chairman, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan |
The Role of Phospholipids and Protein Kinase in Cell-to-Cell Communication |
| 1986 | April 22 | Bengt Samuelsson, D.Sc., Ph.D. Nobel Laureate, Professor of Chemistry, President of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
Leukotrienes and Lipoxins: Novel Mediators of Inflammation |
| 1985 | March 5 | Salih J. Wakil, Ph.D. L.T. Bolin Professor and Chairman, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX |
The Fatty Acid Synthesis: Structure-Function Relationship |