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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#007700"><b>BIOLOGY
COLLOQUIUM</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>MAYER
LECTURE</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Monday, March 13,
2006</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Dr. Randy Schekman</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">University of California at
Berkeley</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">"<font
color="#000000">Vesicle Morphogenesis: Mechanism and Disease
Implications</font>"</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">32-123 Stata Center
Auditorium</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">4pm (refreshments at
3:30)</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1">Hosted by<font color="#000000">
Margaret Ebert, Shlomo Meislin and Sudeep
Agarwala</font>.</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1">Dr. Schekman is a Professor of Molecular and Cell
Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adjunct
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of
California, San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. degree in
biochemistry at Stanford University and did postdoctoral work at the
University of California, San Diego. Among his honors are the Eli
Lilly Award in microbiology, the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award in basic
biomedical science, the Gairdner International Award, the Amgen Award
from the Protein Society, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical
Research, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University.
Dr. Schekman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is scientific director of
the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research and past
president of the American Society for Cell Biology.</font></div>
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<div><font size="+1">Randy Schekman's research is focused on the
process of membrane assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion
among organelles of the secretory pathway.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Biology Education Office</font></div>
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