University of Minnesota

Date:
1980
Reference:
PP/CRI/E/1/28/8
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: University of Minnesota. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Saturday, May 31, 1980 St. Paul Student Center. 2017 Buford Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota AFTERNOON PROGRAM 2 p.m. Registration 2:45 p.m. Avian Studies of Selfish Theory: An Evolutionary Look at the Nuclear Family Alumni Seminar Student Center Theatre Dr. Douglas W. Mock, '72MS, '76Ph.D.Ecol Dr. Mock is an assistant professor in the Zoology Department at the University of Oklahoma. His re search focuses on monogamous birds, especially the Great Egret. Dr. Mock has conducted field studies in Venezuela, South Africa and Texas. 3:45 p.m. Refreshments 4 p.m. The New Biology: Its Surprises and Emerging Paradigms Alumni Seminar Student Center Theatre Dr. Susan M. Berget, '74 Ph.D. Biochem Dr. Berget is an assistant pro fessor at Rice University. She did postdoctoral work at MIT with Dr. Philip Sharp, where she was the co-discoverer of the segmented nature of eukaryotic genes. EVENING PROGRAM 5 p.m. Social Hour Cherrywood Room 6:30 p.m. Dinner Northstar Ballroom Presentation of the Board of Directors Welcome and Introduction of Guests Special Recognition to Mrs. Henrietta Miller by Dr. George Christianson, '51 MS, '53 Ph.D. Biochem Selfish DNA Keynote Speaker Dr. F. H. C. Crick, Dr. Francis H. C. Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine (with J. D. Watson and M. H. F. Wilkins) in 1962 for the elucidation of the double helical structure of DNA. He is noted for fundamental in sights into the structure of viruses and collagen, the genetic code, and for his prediction of transfer RNA. He is considered by many to be the greatest biological theoretician since Charles Darwin. He is the J. W. Kieckhefer Dis tinguished Research Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Sci ences, San Diego, and adjunct pro fessor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego.