"Sex and Smell" talk set as 23rd annual Streisinger Memorial Lecture, April 30
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- "Sex and Smell" talk set as 23rd annual Streisinger Memorial Lecture, April 30
Harvard University's Catherine Dulac (pictured), a professor of molecular and cellular biology, will put that sexy topic into the perspective of "Development and Function of Chemosensory Curcuits Underlying Instinctive Behaviors" as guest speaker for the annual George Streisinger Memorial Lecture. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 30, in Room 177 Lawrence Hall. A reception will follow.
Dulac, who also serves as her department's chair and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, uses mice to explore the molecular logic of olfactory signaling (smell) underlying the coding of odorant- and pheromone-mediated signals as a way to understand neural connnections between neurons involved in smell and the brain.
Dulac will be introduced by Harvard biologist Richard Losick, who will present a seminar at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, May 1, in Room 331 Klamath Hall. Losick studies the development of spore formation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. (NOTE: This space previously listed the time as 11 a.m. based on earlier information; revised info says the talk is at 10:30)