Prather Lecture Series

Neil H. Shubin Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago President-Elect, National Academy of Sciences Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Limbs Abstract: Tetrapod limbs are characterized...

Neil H. Shubin Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago President-Elect, National Academy of Sciences The Origin of Walking Abstract: Walking in tetrapods originally arose in fish...

Neil H. Shubin Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago President-Elect, National Academy of Sciences Your Inner Fish Revisited: New Insights into our Fishy Past Abstract: Every organ...

Dr. Feng Zhang Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT Departments of Brain and...

Dr. Feng Zhang Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT Departments of Brain and...

Dr. Feng Zhang Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT Departments of Brain and...

Molly F. Przeworski Alan H. Kempner Professor of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology Columbia University Why do human germline mutation rates depend on sex and age? Abstract: Germline mutation is the source of all heritable differences and therefore...

Molly F. Przeworski Alan H. Kempner Professor of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology Columbia University Reading genetic tea leaves: promises and pitfalls of genomic trait prediction Abstract: Natural populations harbor extensive genetic diversity. In...

Molly F. Przeworski Alan H. Kempner Professor of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology Columbia University The best laid plans of mice, men, birds and snakes: an evolutionary perspective on recombination Abstract: In vertebrates, meiotic recombination...

Thomas Südhof Avram Goldstein Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and of Neurosurgery; Professor, Dept. of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science...