One of the highlights again this year has been the M.R.
Bauer Distinguished Guest Lecturer Series. This program,
now in its sixth year, brought to campus two outstanding
people, both well-known neuroscientists-Charles
Zuker, professor at University of California, San
Diego, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,
and David McCormick, professor
of Neurobiology at Yale University.
Both guests spent a week at Brandeis. Charles Zuker was
the keynote speaker of the Symposium on Autism and Behavioral
Genomics. Zuker and McCormick's schedules were full with
a public lecture, class sessions, presentations at journal
clubs, meetings with graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows, and spending time in many neuroscience laboratories.
Feedback from our students indicates that it is a significant
privilege to have had these world-class scientists spending
this amount of time on campus, getting to know the students,
and providing invaluable advice to these younger scientists.
Both weeks were very busy, informative, and enjoyable
for all.
