The Baxter Lecture

May 10th, 2006 - Fairchild Auditorium

The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory: Molecular Mechanisms for Perpetuating Learning Specific Growth

Eric Kandel, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - 2000
University Professor and Fred Kavli Professor
Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University

Nobel winner's talk focuses on memory -
Stanford Report, May 17, 2006

Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D. (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1985) was the Inaugural Baxter Lecturer, speaking on “The SREBP Pathway: Cholesterol Homeostasis Achieved by Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis.”

Sir John Gurdon, Kt, DPhil, FRS (Cambridge University), gave the second lecture on “Nuclear Reprogramming in Oocytes as a Possible Route to Cell Replacement”