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Eminent scientist Eric H. Davidson, Ph.D., will present this year's Whitney Lecture, "The Hardwiring of Development: Regulatory Programming in the Animal Genome," on Thursday, May 24, 4:00 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building Auditorium (N2-200) of the Health Science Center. Davidson is the Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology at the California Institute of Technology. Using the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, his research provides many of the seminal insights into the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression and metazoan development. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1963, Davidson produced over 300 publications, many of which appeared in such prestigious journals as Science, Nature, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific American. In 1985, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and he is also an awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition to his research at Caltech's Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory, Davidson served as both co-director and director of the world-famous Embryology Course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
Students and postdocs are encouraged to meet with Dr. Davidson for questions at 2:00 p.m. in the Communicore Room C1-3. Direct questions to Dr. Paul Linser at pjl@whitney.ufl.edu , phone 904-461-4036.
A welcoming reception with light refreshments will be held prior to the May 24 lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the Founder's Gallery of the Academic Research Building, where everyone is invited to meet the speaker. Dr. Stephen Sugrue, Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, is campus host for the event. The Whitney Lectureship is supported in perpetuity by an endowment established by the Whitney Laboratory's Board of Trustees for the purpose of furthering the comparative approach to biomedicine. This is the fourth annual lecture. In addition to the campus address, the lectureship includes an informal seminar and tour the following day at the Whitney Laboratory where Davidson will be honored at a social gathering of the research personnel and trustees of the Laboratory. The Whitney Laboratory is a research institute of the University of Florida, located south of St. Augustine, and is dedicated to biomedicine and biotechnology.