Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture
Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture
The annual Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture brings high-level speakers in the field of biology to share the latest research and discoveries. Presented by the Department of Biological Sciences, the lecture is supported by a gift from Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hudson in honor of Arnold Clark.
About Arnold Clark
Arnold Clark served as a professor of biology at the University of Delaware from 1946 to 1981. He was instrumental in setting in motion the biology education program and was a driving force in the creation of the biology graduate program. His areas of research included developmental genetics, aging, human heredity and radiation biology. His passion was teaching genetics in the classroom, especially to non-majors, and to mentoring undergraduate students.
Previous events
Name: Susan B. Golden
Title: Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Center for Circadian Biology, University of California San Diego
Lecture topic: Circadian regulation of gene expression in vivo and in vitro
Name: Jeffrey Gordon
Title: Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Lecture topic: Developing microbiome-directed therapeutics for treating childhood undernutrition
Name: Van Bennett
Title: George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University
Lecture topic: New insights from human neurodevelopmental mutations
Name: Craig C. Mello
Title: Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine, Distinguished Professor of RNA Therapeutics Institute, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, University of Massachusetts
Lecture topic: RNA-guided inheritance in C. elegans
List of past speakers
2024 - Susan B. Golden- University of California San Diego
2023 - Jeffrey Gordon- Washington University in St. Louis
2022 - Vann Bennett- Duke Cancer Institute
2019 - Craig C. Mello - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts
2018 - Anne Carpenter - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
2017 - Joshua R. Sanes - Harvard University
2016 - Joan A. Steitz - Yale University
2015 - Reed E. Pyeritz - University of Pennsylvania
2014 - Rudolf Jaenisch – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013 - Elaine A. Ostrander - National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
2012 - John D. Gearhart - University of Pennsylvania
2011 - Don C. Johanson - Arizona State University
2010 - Edwin H. Cook - University of Illinois at Chicago
2009 - Christine E. Seidman - Harvard University
2008 - Marcy E. MacDonald - Harvard University
2007 - Alfred Sommer - Johns Hopkins University
