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Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and American Cancer Society Research Professor
“Differential DNA Replication as a Developmental Strategy and Replication Model”
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Join us after the lecture for a reception in the Myers Hall 130 foyer..
THE SONNEBORN LECTURES
Friends of the late Tracy M. Sonneborn have established a lectureship in his memory. This is the 29th year of the lectureship.
Aside from a few years at Johns Hopkins University where he received the Ph.D. degree, Tracy Sonneborn spent his entire career at Indiana University. His devotion to the study of Paramecium established him as the world leader in biology and genetics of the Protozoa; indeed it is no exaggeration to say that he founded the modern era of study in these areas. One of his major contributions was in demonstrating that preexisting structures in cells can repeatedly determine the patterns of new structures through many generations. Although recognized as an important exception to Mendelian inheritance and a critical element in prion diseases, the mechanism of structural inheritance in biology is not yet understood. “Whatever the final outcome of studies of these phenomena, he must take his place among the most brilliant and devoted experimentalists in the history of biology and a true giant, like no other, in the field of protozoan research” (John Preer, http://newton.nap.edu/html/biomems/tsonneborn.html). With precision, thoroughness, and infectious enthusiasm, Tracy Sonneborn also contributed unstintingly to teaching at Indiana University. In spite of the many attempts to entice him away, he remained loyal to IU, finding here the environment he thought was best. To honor his contributions to science and his outstanding career Tracy Sonneborn’s friends and colleagues initiated the Sonneborn Lectureship 25 years ago. (For more information on Dr. Sonneborn, read John Preer’s essay and his 2006 commentary in Genetics 172: 1373-1377).
Support for this lecture has been provided by the Sonneborn Lecture Fund, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Biology.
PREVIOUS SONNEBORN LECTURES
1981 Charles Yanofsky
1982 Donald D. Brown
1983 Philip Leder
1984 Gerald R. Fink
1985 David S. Hogness
1986 Mark Ptashne
1987 David Botstein
1988 Franklin Stahl
1989 Ira Herskowitz
1990 Thomas R. Cech
1991 Elizabeth H. Blackburn
1992 Melvin I. Simon
1993 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1994 Christine Guthrie
1995 Gerald M. Rubin
1996 Lucy Shapiro
1997 Randy W. Schekman
1998 Jim Forney, Eric Meyer, Meng-Chao Yao and John Preer
1999 John Kilmartin
2000 Elliot Meyerowitz
2001 David M. Prescott
2002 Phillip Hanawalt
2003 Sharon Long
2005 Cynthia Kenyon
2006 J. Richard McIntosh
2007 David Baulcombe
THE COMMITTEE FOR THE 2009 SONNEBORN LECTURE
Roger Innes
Thomas Kaufman
Miriam Zolan
