Ada Doisy Lecturers 2008 Ada Doisy Lectures 2009 in BIOCHEMISTRY 1970-1971 Charles Huggins* and Elwood V. Jensen Sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1972-1973 Paul Berg* and Walter Gilbert* 1973-1974 Saul Roseman and Bruce Ames 1974-1975 Arthur Kornberg* and Osamu Hayaishi Dr. Mark 1976-1977 Luis F. Leloir* 1977-1978 Albert L. Lehninger and Efraim Racker Krasnow School of Medicine 1978-1979 Donald D. Brown and Herbert Boyer Stanford University 1979-1980 Charles Yanofsky Stanford, California 1980-1981 Leroy E. Hood 1983-1984 Joseph L. Goldstein* and Michael S. Brown* The Branching Program 1984-1985 Joan Steitz and Phillip Sharp* of Lung Development 1985-1986 Stephen J. Benkovic and Jeremy R. Knowles 1986-1987 Tom Maniatis and Mark Ptashne 1988-1989 J. Michael Bishop* and Harold E. Varmus* 1989-1990 Kurt Wüthrich* 4:00 p.m. 1990-1991 Edmond H. Fischer* and Edwin G. Krebs* Thursday, April 23, 2009 1993-1994 Bert W. O’Malley Medical Sciences Auditorium 1994-1995 Earl W. Davie and John W. Suttie 1995-1996 Richard J. Roberts* 1996-1997 Ronald M. Evans 1998-1999 Elizabeth H. Blackburn Dr. Gail 1999-2000 Carl R. Woese† and Norman R. Pace 2000-2001 Willem P. C. Stemmer and Ronald W. Davis Martin Department of Anatomy 2001-2002 Janos K. Lanyi and Sir John E. Walker* University of California 2002-2003 Peter B. Moore and Harry F. Noller San Francisco, California 2003-2004 Elizabeth A. Craig and Susan L. Lindquist FGF Signaling in Organogenesis: 2004-2005 Peter C. Agre* and Douglas C. Rees 2005-2006 Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka How “Sprouty” Genes Help 2006-2007 Roger Kornberg* and C. David Allis Get it Right 2007-2008 Christopher M. Dobson and David A. Baker

12:00 noon Friday, April 24, 2009 * Nobel Laureate Medical Sciences Auditorium † Crafoord Prize Professor Mark Krasnow is a alumnus of the University of Illinois, Professor Gail Martin, a native of New York, did her undergraduate Urbana-Champaign, and received his bachelor's degree in biology and studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she majored in chemistry in 1978. He did his graduate studies at the University of Chicago zoology and obtained her A.B. in 1964. She did her graduate work with and obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1983, with Nicholas Cozzarelli, Harry Rubin at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her Ph.D. and a M.D. in 1985. For post-doctoral work, he went to the lab of David S. in molecular biology in 1971. From 1973 to 1975 she was a postdoctoral Hogness at Stanford University, where he studied developmental biology associate in Martin Evans’ lab at University College London, where she in Drosophila. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at first showed the developmental potential of mouse embryonal carcinoma Stanford University School of Medicine in 1988, and has served as Chair cells. Dr. Martin returned to the Bay Area in 1975 where she worked in the of the Department since 2006. Dr. Krasnow's work has substantially laboratory of Charles Epstein at the University of California at San Francisco. defined the developmental program of the Drosophila trachaeal system, In 1976 she joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy at UCSF, and he is now studying the much more complex development of the and her continuing work led to the successful derivation of pluripotent cells mammalian lung. Dr. Krasnow has been an investigator of the Howard from normal embryos. She is currently Director of the UCSF Program in Hughes Medical Institute since 1997, and was previously a recipient of Developmental Biology. Dr. Martin is a former President of the Society for the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, Developmental Biology and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and and a Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award. Sciences. She was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2002. In 2002, she was awarded the E.G. Conklin Medal by the Society of Developmental Biology, and in 2007 the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize.

TThe Ada Doisy Memorial Lectures were established by the late Dr. Physiology or Medicine in 1943, shared with Henrik Dam of Denmark. Edward A. Doisy in honor of his mother Ada Doisy, whom he credited with Dr. Doisy was awarded the Illinois Achievement Award by the University instilling his love and reverence for learning and inquiry. Dr. Doisy received of Illinois Alumni Association in 1958, and received an honorary degree his Bachelor's degree in 1914 and his Master's degree in 1916 from the from the University of Illinois in 1960. University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1920 and immediately joined the faculty at Washington University School The Ada Doisy Lectures are among the most distinguished lectureships of Medicine. In 1924 Dr. Doisy moved to the St. Louis University School of in the Life Sciences. Doisy Lecturers have been recognized by seventeen Medicine, to assume the headship of the Department of Biochemistry. He Nobel Prizes and one Craaford Prize, an equivalent to the Nobel Prize for remained Head until his retirement in 1965. Among many contributions areas not covered by it. Twelve of these awards were announced after to natural products and nutritional chemistry, Dr. Doisy isolated and invitation as Doisy Lecturers. synthesized vitamin K, and for this work he received the Nobel Prize in