The Roger Y. Stanier Memorial lecture, held annually, is the keynote microbiology talk at UC Berkeley.

2003

Lucy Shapiro

Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research, Director of the Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine

"The Caulobacter Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network"

 

2002

Richard M. Losick

Harvard College Professor and Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology

"Generating and Exploting Asymmetry in a Bacterium"

 

2001

Alexander N. Glazer

Director, University of Calufoirnia Natural Reserve System; Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

"Photosynethic Antennae: Light and Life"

 

1999

Jon Beckwith

American Cancer Society Research Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

"The Disulfide Bond: Where, When, and How"

 

1997

John B. Waterbury

Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

"Cyanobacterial Picoplankton: Foundation of the Oceanic Food Chain"

 

1995

David A. Hopwood

Professor of Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Streptomyces Genetics: Novelties and Paradigms"

 

1993

Carl Woese

Professor of Microbiology, University of Illinois

"Revolution in Microbial Evolution: Microbial Taxonomy Comes Into Its Own"

 

1991

Stanley Falkow

Professor of Microbiology, Stanford University

"What is a Bacterial Pathogen?"

 

1987

J. William Schopf

Professor of Paleobiology, Director, Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, UCLA

"Search for the Oldest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"

 

1985

Salvador E. Luri

Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT

"The Single Artificer"

  Home Page| Mission Statement| Faculty| Department of Molecular and Cell Biology| Department of Plant and Microbial Biology| The School of Public Health| Hot Papers| Graduate Program| Undergraduate Program| Micro Seminar Series| Contact