Speakers in the Serafin Fernandez Memorial Seminars are invited and hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Genetics. The Series is generously supported by Serafin and Carmen Fernandez in honor of their son Serafin, who was a graduate student at Einstein from 1982 until his untimely death from AIDS in 1985. In recollection of Serafin’s abiding interest in the relevance of molecular genetics to diverse subjects, including evolution, and embryonic development, speakers are chosen from the frontiers of genetics and its applications to other areas of biology and medical research.
Past Speakers Include:
| 1986 |
Dr. Rochelle Esposito |
University of Chicago |
| 1987 |
Dr. Judith Kimble |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1988 |
Dr. Jeffrey Hall |
Brandeis University |
| 1989 |
Dr. Jeremy Nathans |
Johns Hopkins University |
| 1990 |
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn |
University of California-Berkeley |
| 1991 |
Dr. Lynn Margulis |
University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| 1992 |
Dr. Nancy Hopkins |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1993 |
Dr. Gary Struhl |
Columbia University |
| 1998 |
Dr. Robert Roeder |
Rockefeller University |
| 2002 |
Dr. Jeannie Lee |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 2004 |
Dr. Gail Martin |
University of California-San Francisco |
| 2005 |
Dr. Cori Bargmann |
Rockefeller University |
| 2006 |
Dr. David Allis |
Rockefeller University |
| 2008 |
Dr. Michael Levine |
University of California-Berkeley |
| 2009 |
Dr. Leslie Vosshall |
Rockefeller University |